Spring PetClinic Sample Application

What does it look like?

spring-petclinic has been deployed here on cloudfoundry: http://spring-petclinic.cloudfoundry.com/

Understanding the Spring Petclinic application with a few diagrams

See the presentation here

Running petclinic locally

	git clone https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic.git
	mvn tomcat7:run

You can then access petclinic here: http://localhost:9966/petclinic/

Working with Petclinic in Eclipse/STS

prerequisites

The following items should be installed in your system:

• Maven 3 (http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/installation.html)
• git command line tool (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git)
• Eclipse with the m2e plugin (m2e is installed by default when using the STS (http://www.springsource.org/sts) distribution of Eclipse)

Note: when m2e is available, there is an m2 icon in Help -> About dialog. If m2e is not there, just follow the install process here: http://eclipse.org/m2e/download/

Steps:

1. In the command line

git clone https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-petclinic.git

2. Inside Eclipse

File -> Import -> Maven -> Existing Maven project

Looking for something in particular?

Inside the 'Web' layer	Files
Spring MVC- Atom integration	VetsAtomView.java mvc-view-config.xml
Spring MVC - XML integration	mvc-view-config.xml
Spring MVC - ContentNegotiatingViewResolver	mvc-view-config.xml
Spring MVC Test Framework	VisitsViewTest.java
JSP custom tags	WEB-INF/tags createOrUpdateOwnerForm.jsp
webjars	webjars declaration inside pom.xml Resource mapping in Spring configuration sample usage in JSP
Dandelion-datatables	ownersList.jsp vetList.jsp web.xml
Thymeleaf branch	See here

'Service' and 'Repository' layers	Files
Transactions	business-config.xml ClinicServiceImpl.java
Cache	tools-config.xml ClinicServiceImpl.java
Bean Profiles	business-config.xml ClinicServiceJdbcTests.java web.xml
JdbcTemplate	business-config.xml jdbc folder
JPA	business-config.xml jpa folder
Spring Data JPA	business-config.xml springdatajpa folder

Others	Files
Gradle branch	See here