Resource Handling in Spring MVC 4.1

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Spring MVC 4.1 adds a resource pipeline that computes content-based fingerprinting for URLs, provides a resource resolver chain (path, gzip, version, cached) plus transformers to rewrite CSS and appcache links, and exposes a resource URL provider and encoding filter for view integration. The recommended practice is build-time optimization with gulp + bower + npm and shipping optimized assets as a JAR on the classpath; spring.io runs this in production and records 100+ deploys in a few months, confirming the approach works.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Resource Handling
2. 2:00Spring MVC Resource Basics
3. 4:39Resource Optimization Goals
4. 6:37URL Fingerprinting Explained
5. 9:45Asset Pipeline vs Build Tasks
6. 13:00Spring.io Website Refactoring
7. 16:55Modern Client-Side Development
8. 21:21Tooling and Build Integration
9. 24:29Development vs Production Profiles
10. 27:27Source Maps and Build Layouts
11. 30:43Modularizing Client and Server
12. 33:42Serving Resources in Production
13. 37:56Real-world Production Experience
14. 39:27Resource Handling Demo Setup
15. 41:47Gulp and Gradle Demo
16. 45:24Build Process Explanation
17. 48:26Flexibility and Future Trends
18. 50:50Server-Side Support in Spring
19. 53:22Resolvers and Transformers
20. 55:11Built-in Resolution Strategies
21. 56:52Public URL Provider
22. 58:43Rendering Links in Views
23. 1:01:13Advanced Versioning Techniques
24. 1:02:36Drawing the Line on Runtime
25. 1:05:43Supporting Full Asset Pipelines
26. 1:06:56Server-Side Config Demo
27. 1:09:21AppCache and Cache Configuration
28. 1:11:12Resource Chain and Profiles
29. 1:15:10Final Demo and Caching
30. 1:19:15Q&A and Closing

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