Comments on Terborn: Spring.Net and SharePoint

Hi, and sorry the delay in answering.

I get...

2009-04-09T08:45:00.000+02:00

Hi, and sorry the delay in answering.

I get hold of objects from the spring cache by having a "BusinessFactory" class containing properties similar to this:
public static ISettingsBC GetSettingsBC()
{
return (ISettingsBC)mContext.GetObject(NAME_SETTINGSBC);
}

How the context itself is loaded depends on where you store your your spring bindings of course.

This is an example from loading a spring context from an XML stored as a resource file:

private static IApplicationContext mContext = SpringContext;

// Elsewhere...
mContext = new XmlApplicationContext(ASSEMBLY_LOCATION);
ContextRegistry.RegisterContext(mContext);

Hope that'll be of help!

I've been wondering, how do you get access to obje...

2009-04-04T03:05:00.000+02:00

I've been wondering, how do you get access to objects in the spring context from something like a web part? Can you use dependency injection? If not, how do you get access to the spring context?

Hi Rich,

You may very well be right on the ...

2009-02-20T11:18:00.000+01:00

Hi Rich,

You may very well be right on the full trust issue. Quite frankly, I've never had to think about that issue since I've always deployed my DLLs to GAC, thus giving them full trust automatically.

The Spring DLLs are deployed to the GAC as well using the following markup in manifest.xml:
<Assembly DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" Location="Spring.Core.dll" />
<Assembly DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" Location="Spring.Aop.dll" />
<Assembly DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache" Location="Spring.Web.dll" />

Since the Spring.Net logic is otherwise contained within my DLLs everything works nicely without additional work.

(Besides moving spring bindings from web.config to an embedded resource, as I mentioned above.)

I've seen comments that Spring.Net only works unde...

2009-02-19T21:57:00.000+01:00

I've seen comments that Spring.Net only works under full trust. Would you mind posting some info on the steps to enable Spring in SharePoint?

Hi Vinay,

I've run MOSS + Spring.Net with s...

2008-12-05T08:28:00.000+01:00

Hi Vinay,

I've run MOSS + Spring.Net with spring configuration in web.config, so it works. Just add the configSection and spring element, and it should work.

However, in my new projects I've chosen to use a separate configuration file instead. In a farm you may have several machines and even if you could use the SPWebConfigModification class to deploy changes it is a cumbersome process. Especially with future upgrades in mind.

Instead I suggest that you put your spring configuration in a seperate XML that you embed in your application.

The process for doing this is explained here (chapter 5.2.2):
http://www.springframework.net/doc-latest/reference/html/objects.html#objects-basics

Good luck!

Hi Terborn,

Presently i am working on share...

2008-12-04T11:55:00.000+01:00

Hi Terborn,

Presently i am working on share point(MOSS2007) project and we are trying to configure Spring.net in Share point,But we are facing problems while configuring Spring.net Object in Web.config of Share point Sever.
Can you please Give the Details of Configuring Spring.net in Share point.
Thanks,

And How to use Spring.net in Share point.

Hi Mikael and thanks! :-)

Please understand...

2008-10-25T00:56:00.000+02:00

Hi Mikael and thanks! :-)

Please understand that I'm not trying to represent any of SharePoints own framework in Spring, only the code produced by us.

Basically, our data access logic will call the SharePoint object model the "old-fashioned" way.

The same goes for event receivers. My custom event receivers will however only consist of a thin layer that passes on any events to the business layer using the Spring context.

Not really considered whether I should strive to extend the Spring context further, but I don't think I can see much value in it since I won't care to run either TDD or AOP on SharePoint's own framework.

Have fun! :-)

Great article. I have worked with a couple of Shar...

2008-10-24T23:31:00.000+02:00

Great article. I have worked with a couple of Sharepoint WSS projects and I'm eager to try out Spring.Net with Sharepoint. Since I have been working with a lot of J2EE projects in the past I am aware of Spring's capabilities, at least from the Java-side of things.

In your use of Spring and Sharepoint do you have all access to the Sharepoint object model constrained to the data access layer?

How do you fit Sharepoint's Eventreceivers into the Spring architecture?

It would be great to hear more about your experiences with Spring and Sharepoint. I will try to find time to test that combination myself.

Thanks,

Mikael

Comments on Terborn: Spring.Net and SharePoint

Hi, and sorry the delay in answering.I get...

I've been wondering, how do you get access to obje...

Hi Rich,You may very well be right on the ...