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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

The Spring framework has been the go-to framework for Java developers for quite some time. It enhances modularity, provides more readable code, and enables the developer to focus on developing the application while the underlying framework takes care of transaction APIs, remote APIs, JMX APIs, and JMS APIs. The upcoming version of the Spring Framework has a lot to offer, above and beyond the platform upgrade to Java 9, and this book will show you all you need to know to overcome common to advanced problems you might face. Each recipe will showcase some old and new issues and solutions, right from configuring Spring 5.0 container to testing its components. Most importantly, the book will highlight concurrent processes, asynchronous MVC and reactive programming using Reactor Core APIs. Aside from the core components, this book will also include integration of third-party technologies that are mostly needed in building enterprise applications. By the end of the book, the reader will not only be well versed with the essential concepts of Spring, but will also have mastered its latest features in a solution-oriented manner.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a Spring MVC using an XML-based approach


It is now time to apply all the previous recipes to create a working Spring MVC setup. Applying Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, our main goal now is to build a working baseline project with an XML-based container running on top of the Servlet container of our Tomcat 9 application server. This recipe will feature MVC components of Spring 5.0 and explain how this MVC works together with the servlet components.

Getting started

Create a new project ch02-web.xml using STS Eclipse 8.3. Configure the Maven and deployment descriptor as per the recipe, Implementing the Spring Container using XML. Once all configuration errors are bug-fixed, perform the following steps to create a Spring MVC backbone.

How to do it...

Let us build a simple web application using the Spring MVC concept:

  1. Open web.xml and register the main servlet handler of our Spring MVC application, which is org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.
<servlet>...