Spring 3.1 has a lot of features for limiting the boiler-plate code you have to write for common functionality. One great example is pagination. Getting paged data from a database and presenting it to the user is one of those tasks that everyone seems to reinvent even though it's common functionality that is never specific to your business. Spring Data provides some facilities to add pagination to your application with a minimal amount of code. The
documentation on this is pretty good and it includes some steps on how to set up both in the data tier and the
web tier. Unfortunately, the documentation is unclear in a few places (see below) and doesn't explain at all how to use a Java Config. This post tries to fill those gaps.
