Portlets in Action

Part 2. Developing portlets using Spring and Hibernate

Java portlet development is simple if you’re using frameworks like Spring and Hibernate. This part of the book begins with a quick introduction to the Spring Framework and quickly progresses to show how you can develop portlets using Spring Portlet MVC, Spring JDBC, Spring AOP, and Hibernate. You’ll also see how to use JSR 330 and JSR 250 annotations for dependency injection, JSR 303 annotations for validating domain objects, the Spring Validation API, Spring’s form tag library, and unit and integration testing using Spring’s Test-Context framework.