Develop the Presentation Tier

This is the final step in the service development process.

We'll cover the following

- REST-based Spring Controller

REST-based Spring Controller

The last tier in the stack is the REST-based Spring Controller. First, we’ll look at how to write the test and then follow with the corresponding method in the controller. The @WebAppConfiguration is used to make sure the ApplicationContext is of the WebApplicationContext type. Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. MockMvc instance is constructed from the WebApplicationContext.

MockMvcRequestBuilders post and get methods are used to send the request.

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Software Architecture

Managing a Standalone Entity

One-to-One Uni-directional Relationship

One-to-One Bi-directional Relationship

One-to-One Self-Referencing Relationship

One-to-Many Uni-directional Relationship

One-to-Many Bi-directional Relationship

One-to-Many Self-Referencing Relationship

Many-to-Many Unidirectional Relationship

Many-to-Many Bi-directional Relationship

Many-to-Many Bi-directional with Join-Attribute Relationship

Many-to-Many Self-Referencing Relationship

Many-to-Many Self-Referencing with Join-Attribute Relationship

Single Table Inheritance

Concrete Table Inheritance

Class Table Inheritance

Appendix

Develop the Presentation Tier

REST-based Spring Controller