Spring Framework on Ajax

Spring Framework maybe one of the amazing frameworks to ever come out for Java environment. The first edition was released in 2003 and it has become the stage for various developments for Java based application. Even before Ajax was born, Spring Framework has already set up standards for free expression of web application.

The main reason why Spring Framework works well with most Java developers because it enables the developers freely select the parallel programming model. Usually, most frameworks will limit you to their preferred programming model – which is a little bit difficult for most developers since they have to adapt to the programming model.

For an Ajax based application, developers usually focus on two modules of the Spring Framework: the Inversion of Control and the Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework. From this fact, we already know what Spring Framework will mean to Ajax. Instead of automating the response of the server-side to client side scripting, developers will have a free range of responses. Remember that Spring is a Java Framework and it has to be worked with other frameworks so that it could implement an Ajax based application.

The Inversion of Control Framework for Spring is very important for any developers who uses Spring since it sets the actual behavior of specific modules that will be implemented in the application.

Once the stage is set, the specific modules can be integrated. For Ajax, the MVC framework is applied to another framework that has the ability to translate Java functions into JavaScript and eventually, Ajax based application. But instead of a full Java coding, the functions that will come from MVC are served as Java Servlet. It becomes a small API integrated to the whole application.

What makes Spring MVC framework from the rest of MVC frameworks is its function called the DispatcherServlet. This function gives the developers more free reign on the response on HTTP requests. That means whenever the user requests for information, or function, the DispatcherServlet could invoke a series of commands that comes with Spring MVC which offers specific responses.

These are actually strategies on how the request will be handled. These functions are not just there to position each request in a hierarchical order, but these functions actually processes information and execute them as designated by developers. Note that the functions do not limit the speed of processing of one information to another but another route is taken so that these requests will be processed at the same time.

Another advantage for developers when they use MVC is the availability of the Inversion of Control. Aside from using Inversion of Control for MVC, Inversion of Control could actually be invoked to take-over the whole application. This ability of Inversion of Control would give the developers almost unlimited possibilities of the workaround of their application.

Spring Framework’s ability to be small as a Servlet API while brining with it a very powerful application workflow controller makes it one of the highly regarded Java Framework. For this to work in an Ajax environment, it just needs a powerful Java-enabled framework for Ajax.