Spring MVC Tutorials

Spring MVC is a way of using the Model-View-Controller architecture in Spring. Spring MVC is all about the DispatcherServlet, which acts as a FrontController. DispatcherServlet handles/dispatches all the requests to handlers (Controllers). The view resolvers identify which views to display. Handlers mainly are based on @Controller and @RequestMapping annotations. Using @Controller you can create Restservices as well.

A key design principle in Spring Web MVC and in Spring in general is the “Open for extension, closed for modification” principle.
Some methods in the core classes of Spring Web MVC are marked final. As a developer you cannot override these methods to supply your own behavior. This has not been done arbitrarily, but specifically with this principle in mind.

Below is the request and response processing flow of the DispatcherServlet.
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Features of Spring MVC

1) Role Separation
Every role like controller, validator, command object, form object, model object, DispatcherServlet, handler mapping, view resolver, and so on — can be fulfilled by a specialized object

2) Powerful and straightforward configurations
Configurations in Spring MVC are very easy and can reference objects across contexts from controllers to services to DAO layers.

3) Adaptability, non-intrusiveness, and flexibility
A controllers can be defined using its method signature for a given scenario using any of the param annotations like @RequestParam, @RequestHeader, @PathVariable

4) Code Resuablity
Business objects can be used either as command or form objects, avoiding the need of duplicating the code for business logic.

5) Customizable binding and validation
Type mismatches as application-level validation errors that keep the offending value, localized date and number binding, and so on instead of String-only form objects with manual parsing and conversion to business objects.

6) Customizable handler mapping and view resolution
Handler mapping and view resolution strategies range from simple URL-based configuration, to sophisticated, purpose-built resolution strategies. Spring is more flexible than web MVC frameworks that mandate a particular technique.

7) Customizable locale and theme resolution
Support for JSPs with or without Spring tag library, support for JSTL, support for Velocity without the need for extra bridges, and so on.

Spring MVC Tutorial

We have created the customized Spring MVC tutorial, which will help you in understanding the Spring MVC concepts and give you a start in Spring MVC development.

Starting with Simple examples

Interceptors and Controllers

View Resolvers

Attributes

Form Handling

File Upload

RequestParam and PathVariable

JSON AJAX and XML

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