Creating an application with dm Server

GreenPages: a demonstration

Christopher Frost

Ben Hale

Rob Harrop

Glyn Normington

Steve Powell

Andy Wilkinson

dm Server

2.0.5.RELEASE

Abstract

Spring application programmers are introduced to SpringSource® dm Server™ by installing dm Server and examining a small application called GreenPages. Despite its simplicity, GreenPages is designed to demonstrate many different dm Server features and to act as a template from which other modular applications can be built.

This version of the guide is based on the following software versions:

dm Server2.0.0.RC1
GreenPages2.1.0.RELEASE
SpringSource Tool Suite2.3.0.RELEASE
Apache Maven2.2.0

Copyright 2009, SpringSource.

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Table of Contents

Preface
1. Concepts
1.1. OSGi concepts
1.2. Spring DM concepts
1.3. dm Server concepts
2. Installation
2.1. Pre-requisites
2.2. Installing dm Server
2.3. Installing the SpringSource Tool Suite
2.4. Installing Apache Maven
3. Installing GreenPages
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Obtaining GreenPages
3.3. Building and installing GreenPages
3.4. Browsing the GreenPages application
3.5. Running GreenPages from Eclipse
4. The Web Module
4.1. Introduction
4.2. GreenPages set up
4.3. The controller
4.4. Deploying a bundle
4.5. Creating a PAR
4.6. Referencing an OSGi Service
4.7. Publishing an OSGi Service
5. The Middle Tier
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Creating the DataSource project
5.3. Building the JPA module
5.4. Trying out the JPA middle tier
5.5. Applying best practices to the middle tier
6. Testing GreenPages
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Single bundle integration testing
6.3. Contributing OSGi sourced dependencies
6.4. Multi bundle integration testing
7. Automated Build
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Setting up for Automated Build
7.3. Create POM
7.4. Adding the par plugin
7.5. Adding the dependency plugin
7.6. Automatically running the tests
7.7. Deploying the application
A. Further Resources
A.1. Projects
A.2. Documentation