Overview of building a web application with Spring and Ibatis

This first post will serve as the introduction for a series of blogs that will review the steps involved with implementing a site using Spring and Ibatis.

The project using this architecture is www.findstoragefast.com. Spring was chosen as the framework to primarily utilize it's underlying MVC design. Ibatis was chosen as the framework for the database persistence layer for it's ease of use, scalability, maintainability, and caching model.

In addition to Spring and Ibatis, the following other components have been used, and will be described:

• iBator (auto-generate the model and DAO from the database schema)
• Spring Security (formally known as 'Acegi Security')
• geoGoogle (interact with the Google API using java
• Spring mail with velocity templates
• Open Flash Chart for Java (ofc4j)
• PayPal NVP API for Java
• and even more...

For each topic, I will be able to outline the pain points, creative solutions, and provide some helpful examples!