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Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Amuthan Ganeshan
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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.

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Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
Amuthan Ganeshan
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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Configuring a Spring Development Environment
Configuring a Spring Development Environment
Setting up Java
Configuring a build tool
Installing a web server
Configuring a development environment
Creating our first Spring MVC project
Spring MVC dependencies
A jump-start to MVC
The Dispatcher servlet
Deploying our project
Summary
2
Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store
Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store
Dispatcher servlet
Understanding the Dispatcher servlet configuration
Servlet mapping versus request mapping
Web application context
View resolvers
Understanding the web application context configuration
Model View Controller
Overview of the Spring MVC request flow
The web application architecture
The Domain layer
The Persistence layer
The Service layer
An overview of the web application architecture
Summary
3
Control Your Store with Controllers
Control Your Store with Controllers
The role of a Controller in Spring MVC
Defining a Controller
Default request mapping method
Handler mapping
Using URI template patterns
Using matrix variables
Understanding request parameters
Summary
4
Working with Spring Tag Libraries
Working with Spring Tag Libraries
The JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library
Serving and processing forms
Customizing data binding
Externalizing text messages
Summary
5
Working with View Resolver
Working with View Resolver
Resolving Views
RedirectView
Flash attribute
Serving static resources
Multipart requests in action
Using ContentNegotiatingViewResolver
Working with HandlerExceptionResolver
Summary
6
Internalize Your Store with Interceptor
Internalize Your Store with Interceptor
Working with interceptors
LocaleChangeInterceptor - internationalization
Mapped interceptors
Summary
7
Incorporating Spring Security
Incorporating Spring Security
Using Spring Security
Summary
8
Validate Your Products with a Validator
Validate Your Products with a Validator
Bean Validation
Custom validation with JSR-303/Bean Validation
Spring validation
Summary
9
Give REST to Your Application with Ajax
Give REST to Your Application with Ajax
Introduction to REST
Handling web services in Ajax
What just happened?
Summary
10
Float Your Application with Web Flow
Float Your Application with Web Flow
Working with Spring Web Flow
Understanding flow definitions
Understanding checkout flow
Summary
11
Template with Tiles
Template with Tiles
Enhancing reusability through Apache Tiles
Summary
12
Testing Your Application
Testing Your Application
Unit testing
Integration testing with the Spring Test context framework
Summary
Thank you readers!
Using the Gradle Build Tool
Using the Gradle Build Tool
Installing Gradle
The Gradle build script for your project
Understanding the Gradle script
Pop Quiz Answers
Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 2, Spring MVC Architecture - Architecting Your Web Store
Chapter 3, Control Your Store with Controllers
Chapter 4, Working with Spring Tag Libraries
Chapter 5, Working with View Resolver
Chapter 6, Internalize Your Store with Interceptor
Chapter 7, Incorporating Spring Security
Chapter 10, Float Your Application with Web Flow
Chapter 11, Template with Tiles

Overview of the Spring MVC request flow

The main entry point for a web request in a Spring MVC application is via the Dispatcher servlet. The Dispatcher servlet acts as a front controller and dispatches the requests to the other controller. The front controller's main duty is to find the appropriate right controller to hand over the request for further processing. The following diagram shows an overview of the request flow in a Spring MVC application:

The Spring MVC request flow

Okay, let's review the Spring MVC request flow in short:

  1. When we enter a URL in the browser, the request comes to the Dispatcher servlet. The Dispatcher servlet acts as a centralized entry point to the web application.

  2. The Dispatcher servlet determines a suitable controller that is capable of handling the request and dispatching that request to the controller.

  3. The controller method updates the objects in the model and returns the logical view name and updated model to the Dispatcher servlet.

  4. The Dispatcher servlet consults...

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