Spring pro MVC with Webflow In Windows ???????

[mlotfi]

Hi,
I am looking to learn Spring MVC, I bought this book :
Spring pro MVC with Webflow

but it looks like it show only Unix , for example in page 8 :
the command line : ./gradlew
does not do anything in windows, so I downloaded gradle ins windows, but there is no gradlew command in gradle , and even the gradle script that come with source code does not do anything.

Please I apprecite if you can help.
thanks

[Marten Deinum]

It should work without problems on windows (I was on Mac my co-author on Windows). If you are in the correct directory the gradlew.bat file should execute and download gradle (we use the gradle wrapper as explained in the first chapter). The path is indeed in unix but chancing ./ to .\ or remove it should make it work. (We assumed that a developer would be able determine the path differences ).

[mlotfi]

I just moved gradlew.bat to the first chapter , here is what I got :

C:\maj\books\spring\Apress.Pro.Spring.MVC.Jun.2012 \pro-spring-mvc-code\chapter1-
bookstore>gradlew
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/gradle/wrapper/Gr
adleWrapperMain
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMai
n
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 07)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 48)
Could not find the main class: org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain. Program wi
ll exit.


Thanks

[Marten Deinum]

The gradlew.bat and gradlew files are in the root directory... You shouldn't copy those or add them to your path. Simply execute ..\gradlew in your specific directory. If you are in the root execute .\gradlew (or without the .\).

This is BTW all explained in chapter 1 (just right above image 1-13).

[mlotfi]

Thank you Marten, it's working now.
it generated the war file , I put it in Tomcat 7, it worked, I can see the first page that says :

How exciting! Our first bookstore page!

The model says Spring says HI!

My question now, why there is no web.xml in :
C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.33\webapps\chapter1-bookstore\WEB-INF
and the application is still working ?
thanks

[Marten Deinum]

My question now, why there is no web.xml in :
C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.33\webapps\chapter1-bookstore\WEB-INF
and the application is still working ?

Please read the book it is explained in there (in the introduction/chapter 1). But in short in JEE6 you don't need a web.xml you can use java code/annotations all the way.