Package de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.servlet

Provides integration and glue code for the Spring web MVC framework.

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Description

Class Summary

AbstractFacesController	Convenience superclass for controller implementations, using the Template Method design pattern which creates a FacesContext on the beginning of request handling.
AbstractFacesView	Abstract view for a JSP or other resource within the same faces web application.
DispatcherServlet	Central dispatcher which integrates Spring's MVC framework to the faces lifecycle.
FacesControllerAdapter	Adapter used by the modified DispatcherServlet (via the FacesControllerHandlerAdapter to integrate proprietary Controller to the faces lifecycle.
FacesControllerHandlerAdapter	Adapter to use the Controller workflow interface with the generic modified DispatcherServlet.
FacesExternalResourceView	This view is used (and usually created by the FacesViewResolver) to render the view given the specified model.
FacesInternalResourceView	This view is used (and usually created) by the FacesLifecycleController and subclasses to render the view given the specified model.
FacesLifecycleController	FacesLifecycleController is a Controller that manages the request processing lifecycle for web applications that are utilizing JavaServer Faces to construct the user interface.
FacesViewResolver	Convenience subclass of UrlBasedViewResolver that supports FacesExternalResourceView.
RedirectView	View that redirects to an absolute, context relative, or current request relative URL, exposing all model attributes as HTTP query parameters.

Package de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.servlet Description

Provides integration and glue code for the Spring web MVC framework.

This package ships all needed classes to enable all features of Spring's DispatcherServlet within a faces lifecycle; that means you can use any Controller implementation and integrate it without any effort.

Usage

The following sample configuration files show you how to enable the above mentioned features.

The web.xml configuration:

WEB-INF/web.xml fragment

    <!--
        The dispatcher servlet.
    -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>de.mindmatters.faces.spring.context.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>