Struts tiles to Tiles migration - Changes in Spring support classes - spring

This situation arose when I tried to upgrade Spring from version 2.1 to Spring 3.0.x in my web application. Spring 3.0.x doesn't support struts-tiles 1.3, it requires Apache Tiles 2.x. So, I also have to upgrade Struts-Tiles 1.3 to Apache Tiles 2.x. Apache tiles has this migration guide that helped me with this effort. However, I seem to have hit a wall on this which is not mentioned in the migration guide.Here are the details:
This is the tilesConfigurer we were using,
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="factoryClass">
<value>org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet</value>
</property>
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
Since, the class tiles.TilesConfigurer is deprecated in Spring 3.0.x, I changed it to use org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer
The tiles2.TilesConfigurer does not have a setFactoryClass(..) method unlike tiles.TilesConfigurer which is now deprecated. And hence my bean initialization fails.
I have looked up the tiles2.TilesConfigurer api, which now has the methods, setDefinitionsFactoryClass(..) and setPreparerFactoryClass(..). Not only I am unable to decide which one is relevant here, I can't find an equivalent class for org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet. Is there something of this sort directly available in Tiles 2.2, or do I need to revisit some of my existing code with an equivalent that is available in Tiles 2.2?
Any pointer will be appreciated.

A gentleman from the Tiles Community gave the solution. You may find the thread in Apache Tiles user list May 2012 archive. Cross posting it here:
The factoryClass org.apache.struts.tiles.xmlDefinition.I18nFactorySet is supported out of the box in Tiles 2.2. So, we don't need to inject anything special to the new tiles2.TilesConfigurer class. The final XML element will look like this
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
So, removing the property does the trick.

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hibernate annotatedClasses in external file

I'm using spring + hibernate in my application.
I need to map the entities that are annoted by hibernate annotations.
I have this configuartion.
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
<value>com.example.repositoryComment.Model1</value>
<value>com.example.repositoryControlUpload.Model2</value>
<value>com.example.repositoryCycleTicketSummary.Model3</value>
</list>
</property>
I'd like that the entities configuration stay in another file.
Exemplo:
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="annotatedClasses">
<list>
filesThatContainsModels
</list>
</property>
This classes (Model1, Model2, Model3) are annoted by hibernate.
I don't use packagesToScan, because my warmup need to be fast.
There is way for configuration only the class that annoted, but not using packagesToScan?
Thanks
One option at build-time would be to take advantage of annotation processing.
Basically a custom annotation processor will scan your source files at build time and generate a list of all files found to be annotated with #Entity. It takes this list of classes along with an external property file that describes your static SessionFactory configuration and it generates your spring XML file as applicationContext-persistence.xml.
You then just make sure your main applicationContext.xml imports that file for runtime.
Another alternative would actually to use the packagesToScan property. But rather than do what a lot of developers do and point it to the root package of your application, provide the property with a more restrictive list of packages that represent exactly where it should look, helping it avoid inspecting unnecessary classes. For example:
<property name="packagesToScan">
<array>
<value>com.company.application.feature1.persistence</value>
<value>com.company.application.feature2.persistence</value>
...
</array>
</property>
But I honestly think you're over optimizing. If you have this type of bootstrap performance issues, there has to be something else going wrong here to give you cause for concern.
I have worked on a monolithic application with tens of thousands of class files where the scan pointed to the package root of the application and it didn't take any more than a few seconds to bootstrap the Hibernate persistence classes.

MongoDB Batch Job Broken in Spring XD 1.2.0+

We have a batch job running in Spring XD which reads from MongoDB using the standard MongoItemReader which converts mongo records to our domain model. Up to Spring XD version 1.1.3 this worked fine, however in versions 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 the job is failing with the following error (package name shortened)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: c/s/r/b/b/domain/IndexId
at c.s.r.b.b.domain.IndexId_Instantiator_hxmj4p.newInstance(Unknown Source) ~[na:na]
at
org.springframework.data.convert.BytecodeGeneratingEntityInstantiator$EntityInstantiatorAdapter.createInstance(BytecodeGeneratingEntityInstantiator.java:193) ~
[spring-data-commons-1.10.0.RELEASE.jar:na]
at org.springframework.data.convert.BytecodeGeneratingEntityInstantiator.createInstance
(BytecodeGeneratingEntityInstantiator.java:76) ~[spring-data-commons-1.10.0.RELEASE.jar:na]
at
org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.read(MappingMongoConverter.java:250) ~[spring-data-mongodb-1.7.0.RELEASE.jar:na]
at
org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter.read(MappingMongoConverter.java:231) ~[spring-data-mongodb-1.7.0.RELEASE.jar:na]
Looking into this I found the threads NoClassDefFoundError when making a query in spring-data-solr within a play framework application, and NoClassDefFoundError after upgrading to 1.7.0.RELEASE which suggest this is due to a change in spring-data-mongo 1.7.0 and the underlying spring-data-commons to change the default entity instantiation technique to improve performance.
Based on the suggested fix in those threads I've modified the mongo template in my job module XML definition as follows and this fixes the problem:
<bean id="mappingConverter" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter">
<constructor-arg ref="dbRefResolver"/>
<constructor-arg ref="mongoMappingContext"/>
<property name="instantiators" ref="entityInstantiators" />
</bean>
<bean id="dbRefResolver" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.DefaultDbRefResolver">
<constructor-arg ref="mongoDbFactory"/>
</bean>
<bean id="mongoMappingContext" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext"/>
<bean id="entityInstantiators" class="org.springframework.data.convert.EntityInstantiators">
<constructor-arg value="#{T(org.springframework.data.convert.ReflectionEntityInstantiator).INSTANCE}"/>
</bean>
<bean id="mongoTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate">
<constructor-arg name="mongoDbFactory" ref="mongoDbFactory" />
<constructor-arg name="mongoConverter" ref="mappingConverter" />
</bean>
However this is verbose and obviously isn't an ideal fix. The problem doesn't show up in our job module integration test so I have a hunch its caused by a combination of the default entity instantiation change and the fact that when a module executes in Spring XD the domain classes will be in the module's class loader and not visible to the spring data mongo classes in XD's main class loader.
So should this be regarded as a bug in Spring XD or Spring Data Mongo? One fix might be an improvement to the Spring Data Mongo mongo:mapping-converter XML configuration to allow forcing the use of the ReflectionEntityInstantiator which would at least reduce the amount of XML needed above. Alternatively maybe Spring XD should handle this scenario automatically?
I don't think there is anything we can do from the XD side since this is a custom job. We have to rely on the spring-data-mongodb functionality.
It looks like you're running into DATACMNS-710, which is fixed in Fowler SR1 (equivalent to Spring Data MongoDB 1.7.1). You might wanna try the just released Gosling release, too.

How to configure flushMode property of OpenSessionInViewInterceptor of spring 3.1.4

As I am planning to update from "hibernate3" to "hibernate4" & "spring 3.0.5" to "spring 3.1.4".
I have configured OpenSessionInViewInterceptor in spring 3.0.5 so want to configure same in 3.1.4.
But I am not able to configure flushMode in OpenSessionInViewInterceptor of Spring 3.1.4;
My Previous setting for spring 3.0.5 was:
<bean name="openSessionInViewInterceptor"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor">
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref bean="sessionFactory" />
</property>
<property name="flushMode">
<bean
id="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.FLUSH_NEVER"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.FieldRetrievingFactoryBean" />
</property>
</bean>
Now tried to configure same for spring 3.1.4 as below:
<bean name="openSessionInViewInterceptor"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor">
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref bean="sessionFactory" />
</property>
<property name="flushMode">
<bean
id="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor.FLUSH_NEVER"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.FieldRetrievingFactoryBean" />
</property>
</bean>
then it throws below exception:
org.springframework.beans.NotWritablePropertyException: Invalid property 'flushMode' of bean class [org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor]: Bean property 'flushMode' is not writable or has an invalid setter method. Does the parameter type of the setter match the return type of the getter?
And there is no similar class found in alternate to org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateAccessor in spring 3.1.4
So my question is how to set flushMode property of OpenSessionInViewInterceptor of spring 3.1.4 ?
It looks like a mess, with unbound links to property accessors. I'd guess that a copy-paste job was done without much thinking about cleaning things up given the different inheritance hierarchies. I hate it when that happens…
Can you use the Hibernate 3 version instead? Yes, it really does appear to be there; here's the link: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor
Longer term, look more carefully whether the Hibernate 4 code does what you want without specifying the flag at all. Unfortunately, you'll have to ignore the documentation (at least for now) and study the source itself.

Multi-tenant webapp using Spring MVC and Hibernate 4.2.0.Final

I have developed a small webapp using and SpringMVC(3.1.3.RELEASE) and Hibernate 4.2.0.Final.
I'm trying to convert it to be a multi-tenant application.
Similar topics have been covered in other threads, but I couldn't find a definitive solution to my problem.
What I am trying to achieve is to design a web app which is able to:
Read a datasource configuration at startup (an XML file containing multiple datasource definitions, which is placed outside the WAR file and it's not the application-context or hibernate configuration file)
Create a session factory for each one of them (considering that each datasource is a database with a different schema).
How can i set my session factory scope as session? ( OR Can i reuse the same session factory ?) .
Example:
Url for client a - URL: http://project.com/a/login.html
Url for client b - URL: http://project.com/b/login.html
If client "a" make request,read the datasource configuration file and Create a session factory using that XML file for the client "a".
This same process will be repeating if the client "b" will send a request.
What I am looking, how to implement datasource creation upon customer subscription without editing the Spring configuration file. It needs to be automated.
Here is my code ,that i have done so far.
Please anyone tell me,What modifications i need to be made?
Please give an answer with some example code..I am quite new in spring and hibernate world.
Spring.xml
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close" p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}"
p:username="${jdbc.username}" p:password="${jdbc.password}" />
<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
JDBC.properties File
jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
jdbc.databaseurl=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Logistics
jdbc.username=root
jdbc.password=rot#pspl#12
hibernate.cfg.xml File
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<mapping class="pepper.logis.organizations.model.Organizaions" />
<mapping class="pepper.logis.assets.model.Assets" />
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
Thanks,
First create a table for Tenant with tenant_id and associate it with all users.Now, you can fetch this details while the user logs in and set it in session.
We are using AbstractRoutingDataSource to switch DataSource for every request on Spring Boot. I think it is Hot Swapable targets/datasource mentioned by #bhantol above.
It solves our problems but I don't think it is sound solution. I guess JNDI could be a better one than AbstractRoutingDataSource.
Wondering what you ended up with.
Here are some ideas for you.
Option 1) Single Application Instance.
It is somewhat ambitious to to this using what you are actually trying to achieve.
The gist is to simply deploy the same exact application with different context root on the same JVM. You can still tune the JVM as a whole like you would have if you had a truely multi-tenant application. But this comes at the expense of duplication of classes, contexts, local caching, start up times etc.
But as of today the Spring Framework 4.0 does not provide much of an multi-tenancy support (other than Hot Swapable targets/datasource) etc. I am looking for a good framework but it may be a wash to move away from Spring at this time for me.
Option 2) Multiple deployments of same application (more practical as of today)
Just have your same exact application deploy to the same application server JVM instance or even different.
If you use the same instance you may now need to bootstrap your app to pickup a DataSource based on what the instance should serve e.g. client=a property would be enough to pickup a **a**DataSource" or **b**DataSource I myself ended up going this approach.
If you have a different application server instance you could just configure a different JNDI path and treat things generically. No need for client="a" property because you have liberty to define your datasource differently with the same name.

Using Spring Transactions in MyBatis API

We have developed a data persistence framework using Mybatis. The framework uses plain MyBatis APIs. (We were prohibited from using any mybatis-spring, do not ask… why?)
Now we have to integrate this persistence framework with another framework developed by other teams. This other framework heavily uses spring transactions for everything. Our persistent framework DAOs will be used by this framework within its own API ….that means the spring managed transactions will be propagated to MyBatis DAO. It is expected that our MyBatis based persistence framework should participate in spring managed transactions without any issues.
There are two options for us to make this work
(1)Change our persistent framework to use mybatis-spring module. Change DAOs to use mappers directly injected using spring and spring’s SqlSessionFactoryBean. I did build a small example simulating both the frameworks and everything works without any issue. The problem is with this approach that it requires changing almost all the DAOs to use spring injected mapper, extensively test the framework again. We simply do not have time available due to delivery timeline.
(2)Use mybatis-spring, define SqlSeeionFactory using spring – set the datasource and transaction manager used by other framework. Something like
<bean id="smpDataSource" class="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="connectionCachingEnabled" value="true" />
<property name="URL"> <value>${db.thin.url}</value></property>
<property name="user"> <value>${db.user}</value></property>
<property name="password"><value>${db.password}</value>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="dbTransactionManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="smpDataSource" />
</bean>
<bean id="sqlSessionFactory" class="org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="smpDataSource" />
<property name="typeAliasesPackage" value="spike.smp51.domain" />
<property name="mapperLocations" value="classpath*:spike/smp51/mappers/*.xml" </bean>
Then in applicataion code MyBatis DAO gets the sqlseesionfactory from spring like
public static SqlSessionFactory getSqlSessionFactory() throws Exception
{
DefaultSqlSessionFactory sessionFactory = (DefaultSqlSessionFactory)ctx.getBean("sqlSessionFactory");
return sessionFactory;
}
All DAOs already use SqlSeesionFactory to open and close sessions. Just replace that mybatis created sqlseeionfactory with spring created sqlseeionfactory. That way we will have only few lines of changes.
This approach is outlined here
http://mybatis.github.io/spring/using-api.html
The mybatis documentation warns about this approach – specifically that it will not participate in spring transactions.
When I tried the 2nd approach, our framework was able to participate in spring transactions. This is strange. Is the MyBatis documentation incorrect then? I did verify it extensively by creating various transaction boundaries using spring transactions + AOP . MyBatis DAOs are able to participate in spring managed transactions every time. Since this second approach will save us 90% of the development time – we really like to use it – but worried since MyBatis warns following this approach. Has anyone tried this approach? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Did you have any return on that ?
I'm wondering if in the doc they're talking about org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSessionFactory from Mybatis-api while the SqlSessionFactory you're using is from the mybatis-spring lib : org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionFactoryBean

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