Spring

In the past few years many techniques have been developed to help applications interact with each other. One of them are webservice-interfaces. These interfaces are extremly popular in the world of Java software development. One Framework that can be used to build such interfaces is Apache CXF. Apache CXF delivers a toolset to develop interfaces using different protocols like XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, Corba and SOAP. In this article i'd like to show how easy it could be to develop a simple SOAP-webservice based on Apache CXF 2.2.6 and the Spring Framework 3.0.1. You can download the full example at the bottom of this article.

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If you read the previous article "@OneToMany Relationship with Java, Hibernate and Annotations" you might have noticed some
imperfections in the persistence layer. On the code side we have been
lazy by just using FetchType.EAGER. This of course puts extra stress on
the database, because in our example, for each BlogPost all Comments are
fetched, even though they might not be displayed.

Maybe you played around with the example
version 0.1.1(download tarball).
You might have noticed that if you switch to FetchType.LAZY you will
most likely get a no session or session was closed on certain operations.
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Since a few days Spring 3.0 is out. The frameworks core APIs (e.g. the BeanFactory) have been updated for Java 1.5. But there are also some new features in Spring 3.0. Today I will take a look on Springs new OXM-feature and see how it can be used. Naturally all features added to the Spring framework are easy to use. Let's see if Springs simplicity still exists...

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