Spring Social with JavaConfig (Part 1)

In this tutorial, we will create an application that can post messages and retrieve profile information from Facebook and Twitter. We will use Spring Social to implement these features. To secure our application we will use Spring Security, and to manage our views, we will use Thymeleaf.

Table of Contents

Click on a link to jump to that section:

1. Functional Specs
2. Generate OAuth keys
• Facebook
• Twitter
3. Spring Social configuration
4. Spring Security configuration
5. JavaConfig
• ApplicationInitializer.java
• ApplicationContext.java
• DataConfig.java
• ThymeleafConfig.java
• spring.properties
6. View with Thymeleaf
7. Layers
• Domain
• Repository
• Service
• Controller
8. Running the application
• Clone from GitHub
• Create the Database
• Run with Maven and Tomcat 7
• Run with Maven and Jetty 8
• Import to Eclipse
• Validate with W3C

Dependencies

These are the main Maven dependencies:

• Spring 3.2.0.RELEASE
• Spring Data JPA 1.2.0.RELEASE
• Spring Security 3.1.3.RELEASE
• Thymeleaf 2.0.14
• Hibernate 3.6.3.Final
• See pom.xml for full details

Required Tools

These are the minimum required tools:

• Git
• Maven 3.0.4
• MySQL
• Eclipse IDE or SpringSource Tool Suite (STS)

GitHub Repository

There are two versions of the application: a JavaConfig-based and an XML config-based app. Both versions are identical in their feature set.

• spring-social-javaconfig
• spring-social-xmlconfig

Functional Specs

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Our application's requirements are the following:

• Post to Facebook and Twitter
• Retrieve profile information from Facebook and Twitter
• Secure the application
• Allow login and creation of new users
• Create a page for managing users

Here's our Use Case diagrams:

[User]-(Post to Facebook)
[User]-(Post to Twitter)
[User]-(Retrieve info from Facebook)
[User]-(Retrieve info from Twitter)
[User]-(Sign in)
[User]-(Sign up)

//http://yuml.me/

[Admin]-(Edit users)
[Admin]-(Delete users)
[Admin]-(Add users)

//http://yuml.me/

Screenshots

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Before we proceed, let's preview some screenshots of our application:

Sign in page

Sign up

Facebook Profile

Twitter Profile

Manage Users

Post to Facebook

Tweet to Tweeter

Connect to Social Site

Connected to Social Site

Next

In the next section, we will show how to generate the OAuth secret keys for Facebook and Twitter. Click here to proceed.

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