Spring MVC Hello World Example

In Spring MVC web application, it consist of 3 standard MVC (Model, Views, Controllers) components :

1. Models – Domain objects that are processed by service layer (business logic) or persistent layer (database operation).
2. Views – Usually JSP page written with Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
3. Controllers – Interact with service layer for business processing and return a Model.

See following figures 1.1, 1.2 to demonstrate how Spring MVC web application handle a web request.

Figure 1.1 – Image copied from Spring MVC reference with slightly modification.

Figure 1.2 – P.S Image copied from book : Spring Recipes

Note
In Spring MVC , the core disatcher component is the “ DispatcherServlet“, which act as the front-controller (design pattern). Every web request have to go through this “ DispatcherServlet“, and the “DispatcherServlet” will dispatches the web request to suitable handlers.

Spring MVC Tutorial

In this tutorial, you will create a simple Spring MVC hello world web application in order to understand the basic concepts and configurations of this framework.

Technologies used in this tutorial.

1. Spring 2.5.6
2. JDK 1.6
3. Eclipse 3.6
4. Maven 3

1. Directory Structure

Final directory structure of this tutorial.