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h1. A sample using Vaadin with Hibernate JPA and Spring on Z2
This sample is similar to [[Sample-spring-hibernate]] but differs (or rather extends) in that it show cases
the use of the "Vaadin":http://www.vaadin.com user interface toolkit in conjunction with Spring implemented annotation based
dependency injection over Z2 modularity.
As Spring is used throughout - in all modules - this is another practical application of [[How to Spring]].
This sample is stored in "z2-samples.vaadin-spring-hibernate":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-vaadin-spring-hibernate.
h2. Prerequisites
You need to run Java DB as network server on localhost. This is explained next.
The application will create a database "z2-samples"
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h2. Run it
Like all samples, also this sample can be run as in [[How to run a sample]]. If you have the database, the fastest way to verify whether it runs is:
<pre><code class="ruby">
mkdir install
cd install
git clone -b master http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.core
git clone -b master http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-samples.vaadin-spring-hibernate
# on Linux / Mac OS:
cd z2-base.core/run/bin
./gui.sh
# on Windows:
cd z2-base.core\run\bin
gui.bat
</code></pre>
When running, go to http://localhost:8080/vaadin-spring-hibernate. You should see this:
!vaadin-spring-hibernate.png!
h2. Details
As in Similar to [[Sample-hibernate-basic]], the other samples we have assumption of this example is that of a re-use domain module *com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain* that implements a "Thingy Repository" and is used from a web application that is in another module *com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.web*. The domain module exposes the Thingy Repository as a Z2 component - from a Spring application context defined bean - that is imported into the application context of the Web application and injected into the controller filter by Spring. The controller uses declarative transaction demarcation.
The domain module makes use of Hibernate's JPA implementation using Spring's entity manager injection and integrates with the transaction management provided by *com.zfabrik.jta*.
h3. The domain module and its persistence context
The domain module *com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain* defines a persistence unit "thingies" in "java/src.impl/META-INF/persistence.xml":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/java/src.impl/META-INF/persistence.xml, i.e. in its implementation. That makes sense, as the XML file will be looked up with a class loader and we do not intent to retrieve from another module. Or, put differently, the persistence unit is not part of the module's API.
In order to integrate with the built-in transaction management the <code>persistence.xml</code> declares the JTA data source
<pre><code class="xml">
<jta-data-source>components:com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/DB</jta-data-source>
</code></pre>
and the _Transaction Manager Lookup_
<pre><code class="xml">
<property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class" value="com.zfabrik.hibernate.TransactionManagerLookup" />
</code></pre>
The former points to the data source component "com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/DB":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/DB.properties, while the latter makes sure Hibernate can register with the transaction manager implementation.
The persistence unit defines only one entity. The Thingy as in "Thingy.java":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/java/src.api/com/zfabrik/samples/spring_hibernate/thingies/Thingy.java. That is an API-exposed type. We use the simplified pattern of exposing persistent objects in the API rather than using Data Transfer Objects (DTOs).
The application context of the module is defined in "java/src.impl/META-INF/applicationContext.xml":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/java/src.impl/META-INF/applicationContext.xml and looks like this:
<pre><code class="xml">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">
<!-- annotation based config -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.zfabrik.samples.spring_hibernate" />
<context:annotation-config />
<!-- EntityManager injection -->
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.PersistenceAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" />
<!-- The actual EMF we use -->
<bean id="entityManagerFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
<property name="persistenceUnitName" value="thingies" />
</bean>
</beans>
</code></pre>
In short:
* We make sure we can use annotations
* We enable entity manager injection
* We initialize the entity manager factory from Spring
In the implementation class "ThingyRepositoryImpl":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/java/src.impl/com/zfabrik/samples/spring_hibernate/impl/thingies/ThingyRepositoryImpl.java we make use of these capabilities and declare a recurring theme Spring bean "thingyRepository":
<pre><code class="java">
@Repository("thingyRepository")
public class ThingyRepositoryImpl implements ThingyRepository {
@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
@Override
public void store(Thingy thingy) {
this.em.persist(thingy);
}
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@Override
public Collection<Thingy> findAll() {
return this.em.createQuery("select t from Thingy t").getResultList();
}
@Override
public void delete(int id) {
Thingy t = this.em.find(Thingy.class, id);
if (t != null) {
this.em.remove(t);
}
}
}
</code></pre>
In order to expose that bean as a Z2 component for many good reasons. re-use from other modules, we declare a component "com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate/repository":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/repository.properties:
<pre><code class="ruby">
com.zfabrik.component.type=org.springframework.bean
#
# Expose Spring defined data source
#
#
# the context that defines the bean (more than one
# bean can be exposed like this)
#
bean.context=com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/applicationContext
#
# the bean name
#
bean.name=thingyRepository
</code></pre>
that is based on the application context component "com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate/applicationContext":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/applicationContext.properties:
<pre><code class="ruby">
com.zfabrik.component.type=org.springframework.context
#
# context config location is where the context is
# actually defined.
#
context.contextConfigLocation=classpath:META-INF/applicationContext.xml
</code></pre>
See also [[How to Spring]] for more details on these component types.
h3. The web module, transaction boundaries, and service re-use
Let's turn to the Web application in *com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.web/web*. This one is also Spring configured. In this case, contrast to the domain module *com.zfabrik.samples.vaadin-spring-hibernate.domain* service module, its application context is essentially not initialized from a Z2 component but rather from the Web app context (see "web/WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.web/web/WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml). It is stored in "web/WebContent/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.web/web/WebContent/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml and looks like this:
<pre><code class="xml">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.0.3.xsd">
<!-- Annotation Support -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.zfabrik.samples.spring_hibernate" />
<context:spring-configured />
<context:annotation-config />
<!--
This binds to java:comp/UserTransaction, which is ok in a Web app and considering
that we configured Jetty JTA (see the similarly named module transaction manager how-to in the Z2 Wiki and check environment/webServer/jetty.xml)
-->
<tx:jta-transaction-manager/>
<!-- outside of [[Sample-spring-hibernate]]. a web app we would bind to com.zfabrik.jta transaction manager like this
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
<property name="userTransaction">
<bean class="com.zfabrik.tx.UserTransaction"/>
</property>
</bean>
-->
<!-- make sure we can use @Transactional with the Spring aspect -->
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" mode="aspectj"/>
<!-- import external services -->
<bean id="thingyRepository" class="com.zfabrik.springframework.ComponentFactoryBean">
<property name="componentName" value="com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.domain/repository" />
<property name="className" value="com.zfabrik.samples.spring_hibernate.thingies.ThingyRepository" />
</bean>
</beans>
</code></pre>
In short:
* We enable annotation based configuration
* We make the transaction manager available (for in-depth details see [[How to transaction management]])
* We enabled annotation based transaction demarcation (i.e. the use of <code>@Transactional</code>)
* We import the Thingy Repository as a bean into this context.
The only difference "ControllerFilter":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.spring-hibernate.web/java/src.impl/com/zfabrik/samples/spring_hibernate/impl/web/ControllerFilter.java is configured by Spring, although it is instantiated by the Jetty Web container. That is happening because we use the Spring aspect (see [[How to Spring]] once more) and it is annotated with <code>@Configurable</code>. We let Spring inject the Thingy Repository and we mark the <code>doFilter</code> method as transactional. Here is its skeleton:
<pre><code class="java">
@Configurable
public class ControllerFilter implements Filter {
@Autowired
private ThingyRepository thingyRepository;
@Transactional
public void doFilter(ServletRequest sreq, ServletResponse sres, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException {
// do some more data access methods work here
}
@Override
public void init(FilterConfig cfg) throws ServletException {}
@Override
public void destroy() {}
}
</code></pre>
h2. A final word
A lot of what happens here requires the right libraries to be available in the "ThingyRepository":http://redmine.z2-environment.net/projects/z2-samples/repository/z2-samples-vaadin-spring-hibernate/revisions/master/entry/com.zfabrik.samples.vaadin-spring-hibernate.domain/java/src.api/com/zfabrik/samples/vaadin_spring_hibernate/thingies/ThingyRepository.java.
...tbc
sample modules. These are provided via the references in the <code>z.properties</code> files in the respective Java modules.
In other words: There is some non-trivial mechanics going on here that - in the long run - you should be aware of and try to read carefully through [[How to Spring]]. As a result you get a lot of coding and modularization convenience in the combination of Spring and Z2.