This is an example project demonstrating the basics of Spring MVC, Hibernate and Mustache Templates.

Getting started

• Fork this project
• Update your running MySql Database with the SQL script provided under conf/sql

Running the project

$ cd ${BASE_DIRECTORY}/spring-mvc-demo
$ mvn clean test jetty:stop jetty:run

Launch the project at http://localhost:8080/spring-mvc-demo/

Feature Highlights

• File Structure

  • Based on maven-webapp archetype, the project file structure is defined as below:

  • src/main/java for Java Sources

  • src/main/resources for static configuration files

  • src/test/* for tests

  • src/main/webapp for static web resources (css, html, img, js)

• Spring MVC

  • Annotation Based Configuration
  • Selective Component Scan
  • Inversion of Control
  • Mock HttpServletResponse & Response for Integration Testing
  • SpringJUnit4ClassRunner for utilizing annotations during testing

• Hibernate

  • ORM Mapping
  • Model Validation
  • Transaction Management
  • Data-access-level pagination

• Maven

  • Project Object Model (POM) Configuration
  • Platform independent resource & compilation encoding
  • Utilization of jetty-maven-plugin
  • Single line of command (clean test jetty:stop jetty:run) to clean, test, build and deploy

• Testing

• JUnit and EasyMock for testing

• Front-End

  • Mustache.js for Document Object Model (DOM) Templating
  • jQuery for DOM Manipulation
  • Bootstrap for front-end styling and modal popUp actions
  • Namespacing pattern adopted for JavaScript

• Database Management

  • MySQL

• Version Control

  • Git

• Other libraries used:

  • Log4j for logging
  • jCaptcha for captcha's
  • Jackson for json message translation