Introduction to Spring MVC

This pdf tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework.Free training course material under 68 pages by Thomas Risberg, Rick Evans and Portia Tung.

The Spring Framework is a box with very rich tools to organize, enhance and simplify writing JEE application. Spring is organized by modulus

• Managing instances of classes (JavaBeans and / or business)
• Aspect-oriented programming,
• MVC model and tools for WEB application,
• Tools for CAD (JDBC)
• Tools for ORM (Hibernate, iBatis, JPA, ...)
• Tools for JEE applications (EJB, JTA, Servlet, JSP, ...)

Table of contents

• The application we are building
• Basic Application and Environment Setup
• Create the project directory structure
• Create'index.jsp'
• Deploy the application to Tomcat
• Check the application works
• DownloadtheSpringFramework
• Modify 'web.xml' in the 'WEB-INF' directory
• Copy libraries to'WEB-INF/lib'
• Create the Controller
• Create the View
• Compile and deploy the application
• Developing and Configuring the Views and the Controller
• Configure JSTL and add JSP header file
• Improvethecontroller
• Decouple the view from the controller
• Developing the Business Logic
• Business logic
• Developing the WebInterface
• Add reference to business logic in the controller
• Adding a form
• Adding a form controller
• Implementing Database Persistence
• Create database startup script
• Create table and test data scripts
• Create a Data Access Object (DAO) implementation for JDBC
• Implement tests for JDBC DAO implementation
• Integrating the Web Application with the Persistence Layer
• Create new application context for service layer configuration
• BuildScripts