Implementing Flash Scope in Java Web Applications

While working recently on a Spring MVC project I found myself wishing it supported flash scope. I hunted around for a simple solution but couldn’t find anything that didn’t rely on having to import large framework libraries. After a little thought I came up with the following simple and lightweight solution that has worked really [...]

Open Session in View Pattern for Spring and JPA

The Open Session in View Pattern is well publicised in Hibernate circles as the best practice approach to presenting data in the Web tier of an application. In this article I’ll demonstrate how simple it is to configure a Spring application to do the same thing with the Java Persistence API (JPA).