Richard Fearn

When using Spring’s SimpleFormController, the default behaviour is to pass reference data to the form view, but not to the success view. However it’s very easy to override this behaviour, and access the reference data from the success view as well.
To do this, override the 4-argument onSubmit method like this:

protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, [...]

By default, MySQL takes advantage of case-sensitive filenames on Linux, with lower_case_file_system = OFF and lower_case_table_names = 0 (i.e. the filesystem is case-sensitive, therefore database names are case sensitive; and table names aren’t forced to lower case). In this situation it’s possible to have two different databases whose names differ only in case - for [...]