I’ve played around with @PostConstruct in my application and found it not really suitable for use within a @Transaction annotated method. There seems to be no guarantee that the required initialisation will have finished (see http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=58337)

I did get it to work if I followed your example of annotating the interfaces of dao methods and using an aop proxy instead of aspectj, but I have now opted for a @PostInitialize routine instead.

Jon

As you point out correctly, the @PostFilter is not always the best choice for your application. Spring Security offers the @PreFilter annotation (http://bit.ly/18Ta9p) but I have not tested it and I am not sure if that is the best solution for your problem. It would probably be best if you have a finder method in your repository which pulls only the records you really need.

-Stefan

If you have dependencies missing that means that maven was unable to download them all as defined in the pom.xml. I am not sure what went wrong, but it may be that one of the repositories was temporarily not available. I have just released version 0.5 of the Spring Finance Manager application. Please try this one as I have made some changes to the repository list.

The FinanceManager-servlet.xml has been moved and renamed to src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/config/FinanceManager-mvc.xml

HTH

-Stefan

First of all, it’s a very nice article. I have problem though.
When I did “mvn install”, it downloaded a lot of files but it said some artifacts are missing.

9 required artifacts are missing.
for artifact:
net.stsmedia.financemanager:FinanceManager:war:0.4
(from all the repositories specified in the pom.xml)

And also, where can I find the FinanceManager-servlet.xml?

Thanks and regards,
Dennis

“The filter seen on the findAll() … This filter is applied after (post) the collection is returned from the repository and then the collection is reduced as per constraint expressed in the expression.”

Is there an alternative for large sites – some kind of prefilter? Returning extremely large collections where only few elements are relevant will waste too many resources.

-Stefan

The latest version of the Spring FinanceManager application already uses Spring framework 3.0.0.M3 and Spring Security 3.0.0.M1. I am currently waiting for a new milestone release of Spring Security which aligns with Spring 3.0.0.M4 as they are currently incompatible. As soon as it comes out and I find some time to test I will update the dependencies accordingly.

HTH
-Stefan

We already have Spring 3.0 M4.

When can we expect the next releases?

Missing:
———-
1) org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:jar:3.0.0.M1

Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

Then, install it using the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.security -Dartifact
Id=spring-security-core -Dversion=3.0.0.M1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file

Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.security -DartifactId
=spring-security-core -Dversion=3.0.0.M1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file -D
url=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]

Path to dependency:
1) net.stsmedia.financemanager:FinanceManager:war:0.4
2) org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:jar:3.0.0.M1

2) org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:jar:3.0.0.M1

Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

Then, install it using the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.security -Dartifact
Id=spring-security-config -Dversion=3.0.0.M1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/fil
e

Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.security -DartifactId
=spring-security-config -Dversion=3.0.0.M1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file
-Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]

Path to dependency:
1) net.stsmedia.financemanager:FinanceManager:war:0.4
2) org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:jar:3.0.0.M1

3) org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs:jar:3.0.0.M1

Try downloading the file manually from the project website.

Then, install it using the command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.security -Dartifact
Id=spring-security-taglibs -Dversion=3.0.0.M1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/fi
le

Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.springframework.security -DartifactId
=spring-security-taglibs -Dversion=3.0.0.M1 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file
-Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id]

Path to dependency:
1) net.stsmedia.financemanager:FinanceManager:war:0.4
2) org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs:jar:3.0.0.M1

Every release of the Spring Finance Manager sample application is a fully working application. So you should be able to download, build and deploy it immidiately.

With each new blog post in this series I have been extending the functionality of the application to demonstrate new features. So at the moment I am not planning to conclude this series but that is not really the point as you can use the current fully functional version to learn from it. If you find that it contains too many technologies (WebFlow, Security) you can use a previous version and learn from that first.

Hope this helps.

-Stefan