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allows additional behavior to be added to an existing class by wrapping the original class and duplicating its interface and then delegating to the original

AOP proxy is like a dynamic decorator

The discussion whether or not to use Spring vs. Java EE for new enterprise Java applications is a no-brainer

Why migrate?

since then fallen a prey to the hungry minds of Venture Capitalists and finally into the hands of a virtualization company called VMware

While the different companies and individuals behind the Spring framework have been doing some work in the JCP their voting behavior on important JSRs is peculiar to say the least

outdated ORM solution like JDBC templates

some developers completely stopped looking at new developments in the Java EE space and might have lost track of the current state of technology

size of the deployment archive

fairly standard Java EE 6 application will take up about 100 kilobytes

comparable Spring application weighs in at a whopping 30 Megabytes!

Lightweight

Firing up the latest JBoss AS 7 Application Server from scratch and deploying a full blown Java EE 6 application into the server takes somewhere between two and five seconds on a standard machine. This is in the same league as a Tomcat / Spring combo

Dependency injection

Java EE 6, the Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) specification was introduced to the Java platform, which has a very powerful contextual DI model adding extensibility of injectable enterprise services

Aspect Oriented Programming

“AOP Light” and this is exactly what Java EE Interceptors do

common pitfall when taking AOP too far is that your code might end up all asymmetric and unreadable. This is due to the fact that the aspect and its implementation are not in the same place. Determining what a piece of code will do at runtime at a glance will be really hard

Testing

With Arquillian we can get rid of mocking frameworks and test Java EE components in their natural environment

Tooling

capabilities comparison matrix below to map Spring’s technology to that of Java EE

Capability Spring JavaEE Dependency Injection Spring Container CDI Transactions AOP / annotations EJB Web framework Spring Web MVC JSF AOP AspectJ (limited to Spring beans) Interceptors Messaging JMS JMS / CDI Data Access JDBC templates / other ORM / JPA JPA RESTful Web Services Spring Web MVC (3.0) JAX-RS Integration testing Spring Test framework Arquillian *

DependencyVersionDescriptionaopalliance1.0Required for method security implementation.

spring-aop Method security is based on Spring AOP

spring-beans Required for Spring configuration

spring-expression Required for expression-based method security (optional)

spring-jdbc Required if using a database to store user data (optional).

spring-tx Required if using a database to store user data (optional).

C.6 spring-security-aclThe ACL module.

spring-jdbc Required if you are using the default JDBC-based AclService (optional if you implement your own).spring-tx Required if you are using the default JDBC-based AclService (optional if you implement your own).

@RunWith(Arquillian.class)

JDBC Templates hardly give any abstraction on top of the database and you’re on your own for Object Relational Mapping. We strongly advise to use JPA wherever possible; it gives portability by abstracting most of the database specific SQL that you would need, and it does all the hard and painful work of object mapping

small part of your application

In general, JDBC Templates are a poor solution. They don’t have enough abstraction to work on different databases because you use plain SQL in queries. There is also no real ORM mapping which results in quite a lot of boilerplate code

SimpleJdbcTemplate(ds)

@InterceptorBinding

Both Acegi as well as SAF use AspectJ and Spring AOP for Policy Enforcement

JBoss Seam follows a different process when implementing Policy Decision functionality and sets access rules with the help of JBoss Rules [13] the JBoss rules engine

access decision to the domain objects in an application can be based on any number of complex rules

@Restrict annotations

07.2007

how to perform integration tests of you Java EE 6 application using Arquillian