[Springframework-developer] I'm a newbie

[Brett B. <br...@po...>]

Hiya,

Just a few things :-)


Dummies Guide
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In my experience developers (including me)need something quick and easy to
look at when learning a new framework.  Do you think it'll be a good idea
to write a quick spring for dummies guide? This guide will describe a
simple example (like the web one on wrox).  Please let me know what you
think?

The demo on wrox
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I have also downloaded the web demo from the wrox site but I am having
problems trying to get it working.  For example, I have observed the
following:
1) even though the ant script allows the user to specify the server
location (etc) it still has some bits deeper in the script which assume
the user locates their servers in a directory called /server.
2) The reference to UrlHandlerMapping (in the -servlet.xml) is out of step
with the latest code base.  This class now resides in UrlHandlerMapping
com.interface21.web.servlet.handler.UrlHandlerMapping.
3) Having created my own war file. The only example that currently works
for me is the one that generates it's own view.  The others raise a
NullPointer exception.
"11:32:52,746 INFO  [Jetty] JSP: init
11:32:52,826 ERROR [ControllerServlet] Unexpected (probably runtime)
exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
com.interface21.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView.renderMergedOut
putModel(InternalResourceView.java:112)"

Tools
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I don't know what IDE you use but would it be a cool idea to write some
tools to facilitate creating Spring applications.   As a vehicle to learn
some new tricks, I am willing to write a couple of Eclipse plugins or
doing something in XDoclet. Let me know what you would like to see and I
will give it a try.


Cheers


Brett