nhibernate configure and buildsessionfactory time - asp.net

I'm using Nhibernate as the OR/M tool for an asp.net application and the startup performance is really frustrating. Part of the problem is definitely me in my lack of understanding but I've tried a fair bit (understanding is definitely improving) and am still getting nowhere.
Currently ANTS profiler has that the Configure() takes 13-18 seconds and the BuildSessionFActory() as taking about 5 seconds. From what i've read, these times might actually be pretty good, but they were generally talking about hundreds upon hundreds of mapped entities...this project only has 10.
I've combined all the mapping files into a single hbm mapping file and this did improve things but only down to the times mentioned above...
I guess, are there any "Traps for young players" that are regularly missed...obvious "I did this/have you enabled that/exclude file x/mark file y as z" etc...
I'll try the serialize the configuration thing to avoid the Configure() stage, but I feel that part shouldn't be that long for that amount of entities and so would essentially be hiding a current problem...
I will post source code or configuration if necessary, but I'm not sure what to put in really...
thanks heaps!
edit (more info)
I'll also add that once this is completed, each page is extremely quick...
configuration code- hibernate.cfg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<section name="hibernate-configuration"
type="NHibernate.Cfg.ConfigurationSectionHandler, NHibernate" />
</configSections>
<hibernate-configuration xmlns="urn:nhibernate-configuration-2.2">
<session-factory>
<property name="dialect">NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect</property>
<property name="connection.provider">NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider</property>
<property name="connection.driver_class">NHibernate.Driver.SqlClientDriver</property>
<property name="connection.connection_string_name">MyAppDEV</property>
<property name="cache.provider_class">NHibernate.Caches.SysCache.SysCacheProvider, NHibernate.Caches.SysCache</property>
<property name="cache.use_second_level_cache">true</property>
<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<property name="proxyfactory.factory_class">NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle.ProxyFactoryFactory, NHibernate.ByteCode.Castle</property>
<property name="current_session_context_class">managed_web</property>
<mapping assembly="MyApp.Domain"/>
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
</configuration>
My SessionManager class which is bound and unbound in a HttpModule for each request
Imports NHibernate
Imports NHibernate.Cfg
Public Class SessionManager
Private ReadOnly _sessionFactory As ISessionFactory
Public Shared ReadOnly Property SessionFactory() As ISessionFactory
Get
Return Instance._sessionFactory
End Get
End Property
Private Function GetSessionFactory() As ISessionFactory
Return _sessionFactory
End Function
Public Shared ReadOnly Property Instance() As SessionManager
Get
Return NestedSessionManager.theSessionManager
End Get
End Property
Public Shared Function OpenSession() As ISession
Return Instance.GetSessionFactory().OpenSession()
End Function
Public Shared ReadOnly Property CurrentSession() As ISession
Get
Return Instance.GetSessionFactory().GetCurrentSession()
End Get
End Property
Private Sub New()
Dim configuration As Configuration = New Configuration().Configure()
_sessionFactory = configuration.BuildSessionFactory()
End Sub
Private Class NestedSessionManager
Friend Shared ReadOnly theSessionManager As New SessionManager()
End Class
End Class
edit 2 (log4net results)
will post bits that have a portion of time between them and will cut out the rest...
2010-03-30 23:29:40,898 [4] INFO NHibernate.Cfg.Environment [(null)] - Using reflection optimizer
2010-03-30 23:29:42,481 [4] DEBUG NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration [(null)] - dialect=NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect
...
2010-03-30 23:29:42,501 [4] INFO NHibernate.Cfg.Configuration [(null)] - Mapping resource: MyApp.Domain.Mappings.hbm.xml
2010-03-30 23:29:43,342 [4] INFO NHibernate.Dialect.Dialect [(null)] - Using dialect: NHibernate.Dialect.MsSql2005Dialect
2010-03-30 23:29:50,462 [4] INFO NHibernate.Cfg.XmlHbmBinding.Binder [(null)] - Mapping class:
...
2010-03-30 23:29:51,353 [4] DEBUG NHibernate.Connection.DriverConnectionProvider [(null)] - Obtaining IDbConnection from Driver
2010-03-30 23:29:53,136 [4] DEBUG NHibernate.Connection.ConnectionProvider [(null)] - Closing connection

Try changing the logging level for the NHibernate logger. It appears that you have it set to DEBUG, which is probably fine for your app., but will cause NHibernate to do a tremendous amount of logging.
<log4net>
....
<logger name="NHibernate">
<level value="ERROR"/>
</logger>
</log4net>

Did you try to remove the cache-related code from the configuration?
Also, did you try grabbing the latest trunk versions of NHibernate and Castle?

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Spring Data Rest: Entity serialization with LAZY object cause JsonMappingException

I'm getting the following Exception with a Spring Data Rest project:
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException:
No serializer found for class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer and no properties discovered to create BeanSerializer
(to avoid exception, disable SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS) )
(through reference chain: org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.json.["content"]->test.spring.data.rest.xml.entities.Author_$$_jvstb93_1["handler"])
Certainly, I have some entities that have the fetch configuration = FetchType.LAZY.
I followed many instructions and links, but I still have this exception.
What I have already tried to do (with NO effetcs):
add #EnableHypermediaSupport(type = HypermediaType.HAL) in a config class that extends RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration
#Override configureJacksonObjectMapper in the same class, with also using Jackson2DatatypeHelper.configureObjectMapper():
#Override
protected void configureJacksonObjectMapper(ObjectMapper objectMapper) {
objectMapper.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false);
Jackson2DatatypeHelper.configureObjectMapper(objectMapper);
}
add a "org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter" filter in the web.xml
create a custom class that extends ObjectMapper, with this constructor:
public HibernateAwareObjectMapper() {
Hibernate5Module hm = new Hibernate5Module();
registerModule(hm);
}
and this config:
<mvc:annotation-driven>
<mvc:message-converters>
<bean
class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
<property name="objectMapper">
<bean class="test.spring.data.rest.xml.config.HibernateAwareObjectMapper" />
</property>
</bean>
</mvc:message-converters>
No one of the actions above has solved the problem!
How to (definitely) solve this problem?
Thanks.
I have found the solution to this annoying problem.
For every repository of the Spring Data Rest application it has to be defined a custom #Projection; in the projection there will be the necessaries fields.
Pay attention that if there are cycylc references between two entities, the corrispective methods of the projections have to be annotated with #JsonBackReference annotation (for #ManyToOne annotated fields) and with #JsonManagedReference annotation (for #OneToMany annotated fields), otherwise there will be a JSON loop in the JSON serialization.
In every #Repository annotation (or #RepositoryRestResource annotation) it has to be marked the excerptProjection property, with the custom projection.
With this management, there is no need of any other configuration, and the exception for Lazy objects finally is vanished.

Spring MVC Converters doesn't work at all

I'm very new to Spring MVC and Java EE at all (I came from PHP+Zend2). My english is poor too. I use NetBeans.
My problem is that my custom converter does not work. Here's some code:
applicationContext.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd">
<bean id="universalDAO" class="dao.UniversalDAO"/>
<bean id="sessionManager" class="utils.SessionManager"/>
<bean id="idToEntityConverterFactory" class="utils.IdToEntityConverterFactory">
<property name="dao" ref="universalDAO"/>
</bean>
<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="converters">
<list>
<ref bean="idToEntityConverterFactory" />
<bean id="temp" class="utils.TempConverter" />
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean name="universalService" class="service.UniversalService">
<property name="universalDAO" ref="universalDAO"/>
</bean>
<bean name="sessionApplicationService" class="service.SessionApplicationService">
<property name="universalDAO" ref="universalDAO"/>
<property name="sessionManager" ref="sessionManager"/>
</bean>
<bean name="systemUserApplicationService" class="service.SystemUserApplicationService">
<property name="universalDAO" ref="universalDAO"/>
</bean>
<aop:aspectj-autoproxy />
<bean id="loggerAspect" class="aspect.LoggerAspect"/>
</beans>
I also have tried version with:
class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean"
IdToEntityConverterFactory is a ConverterFactory created with this tutorial but it is not important now. I wrote simpler one not to do mess.
TempConverter.java
package utils;
import entity.Role;
import org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter;
public class TempConverter implements Converter<String, Role> {
#Override
public Role convert(String id) {
return new Role();
}
}
Here is .jsp fragment:
<form:select path="${names[item.index]}" items="${valueOptions[names[item.index]]}" />
When I submit the form there appears an error:
Failed to convert property value of type java.lang.String[] to required type java.util.List for property roleList; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [java.lang.String] to required type [entity.Role] for property roleList[0]: no matching editors or conversion strategy found
I found solution to similar problem here . It has something to do with
<mvc:annotation-driven>
but I don't use such tag anywhere in my application (should I?).
My question is how to make any converter work while binding form data to Java object.
EDIT:
I figured out some workaround. I have overriden initBinder method in my Controller:
#Override
protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, ServletRequestDataBinder binder) throws Exception {
binder.setConversionService(conversionService);
}
conversionService had to be previously set in Controller of course:
private ConversionService conversionService;
//...
public void setConversionService(ConversionService conversionService) {
this.conversionService = conversionService;
}
dispatcher-servlet.xml:
<bean class="controller.SystemUserFormController" p:applicationService-ref="systemUserApplicationService" p:sessionManager-ref="sessionManager" p:conversionService-ref="conversionService" />
It works now but it is kind of inconvenience because:
I have to add extra code p:conversionService-ref="conversionService" in every Controller I need converter to be used.
It works out-of-the-box in every toutorial I found on the internet but not for me. I am just curious what am I doing different.
Kindest regards!
Your questions:
I have to add extra code p:conversionService-ref="conversionService" in every Controller I need converter to be used.
You can use #Autowired to inject ConversionService.
You can implement common parent class for your controllers with #InitBinder
You can use abstract parent bean definition <bean abstract="true" ...>
It works out-of-the-box in every toutorial I found on the internet but not for me. I am just curious what am I doing different.
Just use <mvc:annotation-driven>. This easy-to-use configuration is there so that you don't need to configure stuff manually.
How to do it
You can implement WebBindingInitializer. This bean needs to be set up on handler adapter.
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter">
<property name="webBindingInitializer" ref="yourBindingInitializer" />
</bean>
However this approach is kind of painful if you are not already defining hanlder adapter yourself. When you define this bean it disables some DispatcherServlet's default behavior. So you might need to do a bit more than to define this bean.
Off-topic advice
Problem with Spring is that the internet is full of obsolete tutorials. Please use the official guide and reference app. Start using namespace (or even Java) config, autowiring, #Controller components and #RequestMapping.
I belive there is not such think as mvc:annotation-config. There are 2 other things:
context:annotation-config
mvc:annotation-driven
Please tell me if I am wrong
I have tried both and both doesn't work. Here's what what have I done:
Removed p:conversionService-ref="conversionService" from my Controller bean
Added #Autowired annotation to my setter
#Autowired
public void setConversionService(ConversionService conversionService) {
this.conversionService = conversionService;
}
Added context:annotation-config/ (or mvc:annotation-driven/) to applicationContext.xml
Unfortunately setter has never been executed!
My source is here
Quote: "When Spring finds an #Autowired annotation used with setter methods, it tries to perform byType autowiring on the method."
I also have tried using setter with exactly the same type as bean class - still nothing.

Spring Web Flow Conversion Service in JavaConfig

I've started working on a web application in Spring Weblow. The idea is to write as much as possible in Java, rather than XML. So I started off with a JavaConfig file for both the MVC configuration and the Web Flow configuration. But I ran into a problem when needing converters for entering and submitting a form with Spring Web Flow.
I did a lot of research on ConversionService and Converters. I found plenty examples of implementing a custom ConversionService and custom Converters, but I found no examples to to add the ConversionService to the Web Flow configuration in JavaConfig (configuration was always XML).
I did try to reproduce the XML config in Java, which nearly worked. In a form page, a list of POJOs (Employee) was represented as a dropdownlist. The input was List<Employee> and the converter (subclass of StringToObject) worked to represent each Employee as a String. But when submitting the form, I got the error that no converter was found for String to Employee. So basically, the custom converter was found and used when rendering the page, but when submitting the form, the same converter could not be found for the reverse process.
I eventually got it fixed by rolling the JavaConfig back to XML config and adding a custom Formatter to the ConversionService of the MVC config. But I'd like to make this work in JavaConfig if it is at all possible.
I believe the problem is that a ConversionService bean (org.springframework.core.convert package) needs to be added to the MVC config, because this bean needs to be set as a delegate ConversionService in the ConversionService bean to be added to the Web Flow Config (the latter from the org.springframework.binding.convert package). But I don't know how to add this core ConversionService in JavaConfig like in the mvc:annotation-driven tag in the code below.
It all boils down to needing the JavaConfig version of the following code:
<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="typeConversionService" ... />
<bean id="typeConversionService" class="org.springframework.format.support.FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean">
<property name="formatters">
<list>
<bean class="some.package.holidays.formatter.EmployeeFormatter">
<constructor-arg ref="employeeService"/>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.format.datetime.DateFormatter">
<constructor-arg value="dd/MM/yyyy"/>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
If anyone would know about JavaConfig for Spring Webflow, especially about adding a ConversionService, please let me know, it would be a great help.
I had the same thing to do in a project and this is how I did it. I know it might be late for you, but maybe somebody else needs the answer to this:
#Configuration
public class WebFlowConfig extends AbstractFlowConfiguration {
#Autowired
private MvcConfig webMvcConfig;
#Bean
public FlowBuilderServices flowBuilderServices() {
return getFlowBuilderServicesBuilder()
.setViewFactoryCreator(mvcViewFactoryCreator())
.setValidator(this.webMvcConfig.validator())
.setConversionService(conversionService())
.setDevelopmentMode(true)
.build();
}
#Bean
DefaultConversionService conversionService() {
return new DefaultConversionService(conversionServiceFactoryBean().getObject());
}
#Bean
FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean conversionServiceFactoryBean() {
FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean fcs = new FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean();
Set<Formatter> fmts = new HashSet<>();
fmts.add(this.webMvcConfig.dateFormatter());
fmts.add(this.webMvcConfig.employeeFormatter());
fcs.setFormatters(fmts);
return fcs;
} }
I upvoted the accepted answer but would also like to add this. I kept getting the below error.
'conversionService': Requested bean is currently in creation: Is there an unresolvable circular reference?
To fix this, remove conversionService bean like this. (note the setConversionService difference).
#Bean
public FlowBuilderServices flowBuilderServices() {
return getFlowBuilderServicesBuilder()
.setViewFactoryCreator(mvcViewFactoryCreator())
.setValidator(localValidatorFactoryBean)
.setConversionService(new DefaultConversionService(conversionServiceFactoryBean().getObject()))
.setDevelopmentMode(true)
.build();
}
#Bean
FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean conversionServiceFactoryBean() {
FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean fcs = new FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean();
Set<Formatter> fmts = new HashSet<>();
fmts.add(this.webMvcConfig.dateFormatter());
fmts.add(this.webMvcConfig.employeeFormatter());
fcs.setFormatters(fmts);
return fcs;
}

Spring MVC JDBC DataSourceTransactionManager: Data committed even after readonly=true

I am currently developing a Spring MVC application.I have configured a JDBC TransactionManager and I am doing declarative transaction management using AOP XML.However, even if I configure the method to run on a read-only=true, it still commits the transaction.
Database : Oracle 10g
My database-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schem...ring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd">
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${driver}" />
<property name="url" value="${url}" />
<property name="username" value="${username}" />
<property name="password" value="${password}" />
<property name="defaultAutoCommit" value="false" />
</bean>
<bean id="txManager"
class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>
<bean id="sqlSessionFactory" class="org.mybatis.spring.SqlSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="mapperLocations" value="classpath:com/mybatis/mappers/*.xml" />
</bean>
<!--
the transactional advice (what 'happens'; see the <aop:advisor/> bean
below)
-->
<tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="txManager">
<!-- the transactional semantics... -->
<tx:attributes>
<!-- all methods starting with 'get' are read-only -->
<tx:method name="get*" read-only="true" />
<!-- other methods use the default transaction settings (see below) -->
<tx:method name="*" read-only="true" rollback-for="RuntimeException"/>
</tx:attributes>
</tx:advice>
<!--
ensure that the above transactional advice runs for any execution of
an operation defined by the FooService interface
-->
<aop:config>
<aop:pointcut id="fooServiceOperation"
expression="execution(* com.service.EmployeeService.*(..))" />
<aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="fooServiceOperation" />
</aop:config>
</beans>
My controller
package com.service;
import java.util.List;
import com.mybatis.dao.EmployeeMapperInterface;
import com.spring.model.Employee;
public class EmployeeService implements EmployeeBaseService{
EmployeeMapperInterface employeeMapper;
public EmployeeMapperInterface getEmployeeMapper() {
return employeeMapper;
}
public void setEmployeeMapper(EmployeeMapperInterface employeeMapper) {
this.employeeMapper = employeeMapper;
}
#Override
public Employee getEmployeeById(long empId){
//retrieve from database
List empList = employeeMapper.getEmployeeWithId(empId);
if(empList != null && empList.size()>0){
return (Employee) empList.get(0);
}
return null;
}
#Override
public long saveEmployee(Employee employee){
long empId = 0l;
if(employee.getEmpId()==0){
empId = new Long( employeeMapper.insertEmployee(employee));
}else{
employeeMapper.updateEmployee(employee);
empId = employee.getEmpId();
}
try {
System.out.println("gonna sleep");
Thread.sleep(10);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return empId;
}
How do I prevent the auto commit?I have also noticed that even if I don't put any transaction management code, the code still commits. Note, the transaction advice is however,invoked as when I put a no-rollback-for for RuntimeException and then do a 1/0, it correctly commits the data and rolls back if I put the same as rollback-for.
I have also tried out the query timeout by putting the thread on sleep, even that doesn't work, but I figure that timeout might be for an actual query, so thats fine.
Thanks in advance!
The advice read-only is only advice. It is not a requirement that the underlying transaction management system prevent writes when something is marked read-only, it is meant more as an optimization hint, saying that this method is read only, so you don't need to worry about it changing things. Some transaction managers will complain if changes are made in a read-only transaction, some will not. Generally, datasources acquired via JNDI will not. In any case, you should not rely on read-only advice preventing changes from being written back to disk.
Your options for preventing changes from being persisted are:
Mark the transaction rollback only or throw an exception having the same effect
Detach/evict the object from the transaction session before you change it
Clone the object and use the clone
DataSourceTransactionManager begins transaction with doBegin method.
From this method DataSourceUtils.prepareConnectionForTransaction called.
Inside this method you can see following code block:
if (definition != null && definition.isReadOnly()) {
try {
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("Setting JDBC Connection [" + con + "] read-only");
}
con.setReadOnly(true);
}
catch (SQLException ex) {
So you could configure your logging framework to set log-level to DEBUG for DataSourceUtils class.
Or you could set breakpoint in this place and debug manually.
According to this article I expect that SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY will be executed on your Oracle connection.
And from Oracle docs we could see benefits which you receive in case of success:
By default, the consistency model for Oracle guarantees statement-level read consistency, but does not guarantee transaction-level read consistency (repeatable reads). If you want transaction-level read consistency, and if your transaction does not require updates, then you can specify a read-only transaction. After indicating that your transaction is read-only, you can execute as many queries as you like against any database table, knowing that the results of each query in the read-only transaction are consistent with respect to a single point in time.
The read-only behaviour is strictly driver specific. Oracle driver ignores this flag entirely. For instance the same update statements executed in Oracle will modify the database if run in read-only transaction, while in HSQL2 I was getting db level exceptions.
I know no other way than explicit rollback through api or exception to prevent commit in Oracle. Also this way your code will be portable between different drivers and databases.
The answer is on Spring MVC Mybatis transaction commit
Detailed stack traces are also available.
To summarize,
Read-only is only an advice and it guarantees nothing, and I would
really like the Spring docs to be updated about this.
whenever a query is executed in Oracle using Mybatis, it is in the context of a transaction which is automatically started,
committed(or rolled back, if execption is raised),and closed by
Mybatis.
Logging the application was a good idea and it helped me to find out how the actual transactions are started etc
.

Externalize #InitBinder initialization into WebBindingInitializer

There are two major means of data binding initialization, but there is a drawback in the oldschool one, that I can't figure out. This annotation way is great :
#InitBinder("order")
public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
// Problem is that I want to set allowed and restricted fields - can be done here
binder.setAllowedFields(allowedFields.split(","));
}
but I can't be done with ConfigurableWebBindingInitializer. First off, the binder instance is created in AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter and initializer is passed the binder instance somewhere in HandlerMethodInvoker so I can't set it up... I can't do something like this :
<bean id="codesResolver" class="org.springframework.validation.DefaultMessageCodesResolver" />
<bean id="binder" class="org.springframework.web.portlet.bind.PortletRequestDataBinder" scope="prototype">
<property name="allowedFields" value="${allowedFields}" />
<aop:scoped-proxy />
</bean>
<bean id="webBindingInitializer" class="org.springframework.web.bind.support.ConfigurableWebBindingInitializer">
<property name="messageCodesResolver" ref="codesResolver" />
</bean>
Because binder instance is passed into it in handlerAdapter. How can I set up the binder then ?
There is no way of setting it up in xml configuration. You must implement your custom WebBindingInitializer ... The ConfigurableWebBindingInitializer is obviously missing the possibility of setting up allowed and restricted fields...
Or you can vote up SPR-8601
This is very old, however for anyone that dislike the use of annotations in production code (like me) here is a solution I found to add a init binder without use of annotations. You only need to overwrite initBinder method that extends from most of base controllers provided by Spring:
protected void initBinder(HttpServletRequest request, ServletRequestDataBinder binder) throws Exception
{
System.out.println("Binding!!!!!");
super.initBinder(request, binder);
binder.registerCustomEditor(Double.class, new CurrencyPropertyEditor());
}
Where my CurrencyPropertyEditor class is a subclass of java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport with getAsText, getValue, setValue and setAsText methods overwrited as well.
Hope it helps!!!

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