Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Spring 3.0 Portlet MVC

1) Article on developing a simple Hello World portlet using Spring 3.0 Portlet MVC framework is now published at DZone: http://books.dzone.com/articles/hello-world-portlet-using-Spring-3-portlet-MVC.
The article shows the steps that you need to follow to create a simple Hello World portlet using Spring Portlet MVC. It also attempts to explain how Spring Portlet MVC works behind the scenes.
2) Article on developing a Book Catalog portlet using Spring Portlet MVC 3.0 Annotations is now available at DZone: http://books.dzone.com/articles/spring-30-portlet-mvc-part-2
The article shows how to use some of the important annotations to develop a multi-page portlet.

The source code for both the articles is available here, along with source code of the Portlets in Action book: http://code.google.com/p/portletsinaction/downloads/list

If you have any questions, then please post it in the author online forum of the book: http://www.manning-sandbox.com/forum.jspa?forumID=613