I’ve been playing around with Heroku at work for the past week or two. Heroku is pretty awesome if you want to get an app up and running quickly. Heroku does support Java and they have a few Java templates. Their current offering for Java uses Spring 3 and Tomcat 7.0.54 with Java 7. However,…
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Setting the content type to text/plain for a JSON response from a Spring controller
I was using a jQuery plugin called a ajaxfileupload to upload a file through AJAX. Technically what the plugin does isn’t AJAX. It creates a hidden form and an iframe, and then submits the form using the iframe as the target. The iframe will then end up with the response from the server. This response…
Implementing JSONP in Spring MVC 3.0.x
In Spring 3, it’s very easy to get a view to return JSON. However, there is no built-in mechanism to return JSONP. I was able to find a pretty good tutorial That uses Spring’s DelegatingFilterProxy. I implemented this solution and I got it to work, but I didn’t like the fact that I had to…
Integrating Regula with Spring 3.0.x MVC
A little less than a year ago, I released Regula, an annotation-based form-validation written in Javascript. The source and documentation are available on GitHub. I started working on the integration on and off throughout most of last year. At the end of the year, I had a pretty good integration going, where you could annotate…