We are seeing Spring in school right now but we don’t have the time to wait till the end of the semester to start developing an application. We continue using an app we made last year, and are writing the service layer right now.
The problem is our “client” wants to have a desktop client and a webpart, which used the same dtatabase. This would be no problem if we hook up a server that can handle RMI. So basically we want to be able to retrieve/send data to the server that runs our service layer, and use the objects on the client side as well.
I have no idea where to start digging in Spring to figure out how to do this, so some help would be appreciated.
PS: At this point I do not need MVC yet. MVC is handled from within the desktop app where we have views and controllers.The model is the same from the one on the service layer. How do we use the same model without copying it?
Check out spring remoting: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/remoting.html
It’s easy to expose your spring beans remotely, using a variety of protocols.