Spring MVC

Request lifecycle Parameter binding

• Understand how Spring binds web parameters to your business objects and provide validation and error handling at the same time.
• Know which default binders are being used, how to plug in extra, and how to built your own.
• Understand the default built-in validation mechanism.
• Know which role property editors play
• Know how to use the spring form tag library and how it can be used to bind the values of a Command object to a HTML form and display binding errors.

Bean Configuration

• Explain how Spring configuration works in general using the Spring application context and the web.xml file.

Tag libraries I18N

• Understand how Spring MVC supports I18N and identify its main components.
  
• Know how to retrieve the locale from the request and so lookup a Locale-aware message.
  
• Know how to store Locales and how they can be changed at runtime.
  
• Understand its ResourceBundle support.
  

Exception handling

• Understand how the exception handling mechanism works.
  
• Know how to extend the built-in exception handlers and how to write your own.

Annotation-based controller configuration

• Understand how to modify your configuration in order to enable annotations
• Define a controller and handler methods
• Define the binding of request parameters to method parameters
• Store attributes in a session

Spring MVC in general

• Demonstrate understanding of the purpose of Spring MVC.
• Identify common design pattern that are used by Spring MVC.
• Show knowledge of supporting classes of the Spring MVC framework, e.g. WebApplicationSupport, DelegatingFilterProxy.