Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Setup for Spring Web Flow 2
Chapter 3: The Basics of Spring Web Flow 2
Chapter 4: Spring Faces
Chapter 5: Mastering Spring Web Flow
Chapter 6: Testing Spring Web Flow Applications
Chapter 7: Security
Appendix A: flow.trac:The Model for the Examples
Appendix B: Running on the SpringSource dm Server
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Three cornerstones: Spring, Spring MVC, and Spring Web Flow
    • Spring Framework
    • Spring MVC
    • Spring Web Flow
  • What is Spring Web Flow
    • The elements of Spring Web Flow: flow, view, and conversation
      • Flow
      • View
      • Conversation
    • The Spring Web Flow elements: an example
  • The new major release: Spring Web Flow 2.0
    • Spring Web Flow
    • Spring Faces
    • Spring JavaScript
    • Spring Binding
  • Introduction to a new version
    • Automatic model binding
    • Support for a new expression language
    • Flash scope is now a real flash scope
    • Spring Faces
    • Flow managed persistence
    • External redirects
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Setup for Spring Web Flow 2
  • Installation of Spring Web Flow 2
    • Inside the distribution
    • The examples inside the distribution
      • Building the examples from the source code
      • Installing the examples on your local machine
  • Support for developers
    • Build systems
      • Ant
      • Maven
    • IDE
      • Eclipse and Spring IDE
      • NetBeans
  • A sample for a quick start
    • Overview over the example
    • The basics
    • Building the service and database layer
    • The web.xml file
    • Dependencies
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: The Basics of Spring Web Flow 2
  • Elements of a flow
    • The entry point to the flow
    • Section head
    • Section data
      • The metadata of a flow
      • Section input
      • Programming in a flow
      • The scopes
      • The flow instance variables
      • Assign a value to a scope variable
      • Access the value of a scope
      • Inputs
    • The states
      • The start-state
      • The action-state and execution of business logic
      • The view-state
      • The decision-state
      • The subflow-state
      • The end-state
    • The exit point
    • Section footer
      • global-transitions: global handling of events
      • on-end: execution of actions at the end of the flow
      • output: output of the flow
      • exception-handler: exceptions between the execution of a flow
      • bean-import: declaring beans for a flow
    • Internals of building a flow
  • Configuration
    • FlowRegistry
    • FlowExecutor
    • FlowExecutor Listeners
    • Internals of the Webflow Configuration
    • Inheritance inside a flow definition
      • Inheritance for flows
      • Inheritance for states
      • Merge or no merge
  • The complete flow for the example
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Spring Faces
  • Enabling Spring Faces support
    • Inside the Facelets technology
    • The ResourceServlet
      • Internals of the ResourceServlet
    • Configuration of the application context
  • Using Spring Faces
    • Overview of all tags of the Spring Faces tag library
    • A complete example
      • Creating the input page
      • Handling of errors
      • Reflecting the actions of the buttons into the flow definition file
      • Showing the results
  • Integration with other JavaServer Faces component libraries
    • Integration with JBoss RichFaces
    • Integration with Apache MyFaces Trinidad
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Mastering Spring Web Flow
  • Subflows
  • Spring JavaScript
    • What is AJAX?
    • Installing Spring JavaScript
      • The first example with Spring JavaScript
    • Apache Tiles integration
      • Tiles and AJAX
  • The Web Flow configuration
    • flow
    • attribute
    • secured
    • persistence-context
    • var
    • input
    • output
    • actionTypes
      • evaluate
      • render
      • set
    • on-start
    • on-end
    • transition
    • global-transitions
    • exception-handler
    • bean-import
    • action-state
    • view-state
    • decision-state
    • subflow-state
    • end-state
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Testing Spring Web Flow Applications
  • How to test a Spring Web Flow application
    • The first example
    • A look into the source code
    • First steps in testing
    • Testing Persistent Contexts
      • A short introduction to EasyMock
    • Testing subflows
    • More testing with EasyMock
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Security
  • Introducing Spring Security
  • Installing Spring Security
  • Basic authentication with Spring Security
    • Setting up your web.xml
    • Advanced Spring Security configuration
    • UserDetails
    • Using database access to retrieve users
    • Securing parts of a web page
    • Securing method invocations
  • Using Spring Security with Spring Web Flow
    • Changing the user's password
  • Summary

• Appendix A: flow.trac:The Model for the Examples
  • flow.trac
    • Item
    • User
    • Role
    • Project
    • Issue
    • Type
    • Priority
    • Comment
    • Attachment
  • Summary

• Appendix B: Running on the SpringSource dm Server
  • Introduction to the SpringSource dm Server
  • Installation of the SpringSource dm Server
  • Migrating an application
  • Summary

• Index

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