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Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Amuthan Ganeshan
Book Image

Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Amuthan Ganeshan

Overview of this book

Spring MVC helps you build flexible and loosely coupled web applications. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also, Spring can integrate effortlessly with other popular web frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces, and Tapestry. The book progressively teaches you to configure the Spring development environment, architecture, controllers, libraries, and more before moving on to developing a full web application. It begins with an introduction to the Spring development environment and architecture so you're familiar with the know-hows. From here, we move on to controllers, views, validations, Spring Tag libraries, and more. Finally, we integrate it all together to develop a web application. You'll also get to grips with testing applications for reliability.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

View resolvers


A view resolver helps the Dispatcher servlet to identify the views that have to be rendered as a response to a specific web request. Spring MVC provides various view resolver implementations to identify views and InternalResourceViewResolver is one such implementation:

@Bean 
public InternalResourceViewResolver getInternalResourceViewResolver() { 
    InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver(); 
    resolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class); 
    resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/"); 
    resolver.setSuffix(".jsp"); 
 
    return resolver; 
} 

Through the above bean definition is in the web application context configuration (WebApplicationContextConfig), we are instructing Spring MVC to create a bean for the class InternalResourceViewResolver (org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver). We will see more about the view resolver in Chapter 5, Working with View Resolver.

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