Andy Pemberton
Mar 10 2009
Sometimes I look at old draft blog entries and ask myself “what was I thinking?”. Every once in a while, though, I look at an old draft post and say “hey, that’s pretty cool!”. This article fell into the pretty cool category, not so much for the content, but the example app, so I hope you enjoy it (OK, you can skip to the end now).
Feb 27 2009
Spring Portlet MVC Implicit Model
Do you use Spring Portlet MVC? Have you ever noticed the ImplicitModel request parameter in your URL? It looks something like:
org.springframework.web.portlet.mvc.ImplicitModel=true
Well, it’s a Spring Portlet MVC 2.5 feature and I was scratching my head trying to figure out what it does. It’s set by Spring under the covers, so I dug into their source code to understand it and thought I would share.
Jan 17 2009
Annotation-based Spring Portlet MVC Lifecycle
Jared Richardson spoke at a Richmond Java Users Group meeting I attended last week; his topic was about investing in yourself and your career - what he called career 2.0. At one point during the presentation, he noted that “if you can’t draw something, you don’t understand it”, which motivated me to finish a blog post I started a while back about Spring Portlet MVC.