In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Maven to create a Java web application (with Spring MVC) project, and make it support Eclipse IDE.
Tools used :
- Maven 3.0.5
- Eclipse 4.2
- JDK 6
- Spring 3.2.0.RELEASED
- Tomcat 7
1. Web Application Project from Maven Template
In a terminal (*uix or Mac) or command prompt (Windows), navigate to the folder you want to store the project. Issue following command :
mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId={project-packaging} -DartifactId={project-name} -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false
This tell Maven to create a Java web application project from “maven-archetype-webapp” template.
For example,
$ pwd /Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace $ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.mkyong -DartifactId=CounterWebApp -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [INFO] Generating project in Batch mode [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Using following parameters for creating project from Old (1.x) Archetype: maven-archetype-webapp:1.0 [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [INFO] Parameter: groupId, Value: com.mkyong [INFO] Parameter: packageName, Value: com.mkyong [INFO] Parameter: package, Value: com.mkyong [INFO] Parameter: artifactId, Value: CounterWebApp [INFO] Parameter: basedir, Value: /Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace [INFO] Parameter: version, Value: 1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] project created from Old (1.x) Archetype in dir: /Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace/CounterWebApp [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 3.147s [INFO] Finished at: Thu Dec 20 20:35:19 MYT 2012 [INFO] Final Memory: 12M/128M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
In above case, a new web application project named “CounterWebApp“, and the entire project directory structure is created automatically.
2. Maven Directory Layout
Maven created following web application directory layout. A standard deployment descriptorweb.xml and Maven pom.xml are created.
CounterWebApp |-src |---main |-----resources |-----webapp |-------index.jsp |-------WEB-INF |---------web.xml |-pom.xml
Please check this official guide to understand more.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mkyong</groupId> <artifactId>CounterWebApp</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>CounterWebApp Maven Webapp</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <finalName>CounterWebApp</finalName> </build> </project>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" > <web-app> <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name> </web-app>
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
</body>
</html>3. Eclipse IDE Support
To convert the Maven web project to support Eclipse IDE, in terminal, navigate to “CounterWebAPp” folder, issue this command :
mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0
You must add the -Dwtpversion=2.0 argument to make it as a Eclipse web project. Imports it into Eclipse IDE, a globe icon on top of project, means this is a web project in Eclipse.
Many users are confused, again, if you just issue
mvn eclipse:eclipse, it will only convert the project as Eclipse Java project, add extra
-Dwtpversion=2.0 argument to make it as Eclipse web project.
Done. This web project is ready to deploy. Attached to Eclipse’s Tomcat server plugin, and start it.
You can access the hello world jsp via – http://localhost:8080/CounterWebApp/
4. Update POM
To make above Maven web project to support Spring MVC framework, we need to touch up on the existingpom.xml :
- Add compiler plugin to specify JDK6 to compile this project (default is using JDK1.4).
- Add Spring frameworks dependencies.
- Update jUnit to latest 4.11.
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mkyong</groupId> <artifactId>CounterWebApp</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>CounterWebApp Maven Webapp</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <properties> <spring.version>3.0.5.RELEASE</spring.version> <junit.version>4.11</junit.version> <jdk.version>1.6</jdk.version> </properties> <dependencies> <!-- Spring 3 dependencies --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>${junit.version}</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <finalName>CounterWebApp</finalName> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.0</version> <configuration> <source>${jdk.version}</source> <target>${jdk.version}</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
5. Spring MVC REST
Create a Spring MVC controller class, with two simple methods to print a message.
package com.mkyong.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class BaseController {
@RequestMapping(value="/welcome", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String welcome(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Maven Web Project + Spring 3 MVC - welcome()");
//Spring uses InternalResourceViewResolver and return back index.jsp
return "index";
}
@RequestMapping(value="/welcome/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String welcomeName(@PathVariable String name, ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Maven Web Project + Spring 3 MVC - " + name);
return "index";
}
}Create a Spring configuration file, defines the Spring view resolver.
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="com.mkyong.controller" /> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value> </property> <property name="suffix"> <value>.jsp</value> </property> </bean> </beans>
Update existing web.xml to support Servlet 2.5 (the default Servlet 2.3 is too old), and also integrates Spring framework into this web application project via Spring’s listenerContextLoaderListener.
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5"> <display-name>Counter Web Application</display-name> <servlet> <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet </servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener </listener-class> </listener> </web-app>
Move existing index.jsp inside folder WEB-INF, to protect user access it directly. In additional, edit the file to print out the${message} variable that pass by the controller.
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello World!</h2>
<h4>Message : ${message}</h1>
</body>
</html>Review the final directory structure
6. Eclipse + Tomcat
In order to start or debug this project via Eclipse server plugin (Tomcat or other container). You need to issue following command again, in order to make all dependencies attached to the project web deployment assembly.
mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0
Before this command, project dependencies are empty.
After this command, now project dependdencies are here!
Many developers are trapped here, and failed to perform the starting or debugging in Eclipse server plugin, all failed by showing dependencies not found error message. Right click on your project properties, make sure all dependencies are inside the web deployment assembly, otherwise issue
mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0 again!
7. Maven Packaging
Review the pom.xml again, the packaging tag defining what is the packaging format or output.
<project ...> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mkyong</groupId> <artifactId>CounterWebApp</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
Package the project to deploy is easy, just issue mvn package, it compiles and package the web project into a “war” file and store inproject/target folder.
For example :
$pwd /Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace/CounterWebApp Yongs-MacBook-Air:CounterWebApp mkyong$ mvn package [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building CounterWebApp Maven Webapp 1.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] -- omitted for readability [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.1.1:war (default-war) @ CounterWebApp --- [INFO] Packaging webapp [INFO] Assembling webapp [CounterWebApp] in [/Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace/CounterWebApp/target/CounterWebApp] [INFO] Processing war project [INFO] Copying webapp resources [/Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace/CounterWebApp/src/main/webapp] [INFO] Webapp assembled in [87 msecs] [INFO] Building war: /Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace/CounterWebApp/target/CounterWebApp.war [INFO] WEB-INF/web.xml already added, skipping [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 3.936s [INFO] Finished at: Thu Dec 20 22:28:53 MYT 2012 [INFO] Final Memory: 14M/206M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Done, just copy the project/target/CounterWebApp.war file and deploy to your container.
8. Demo
Start the web application.
http://localhost:8080/CounterWebApp/welcome
http://localhost:8080/CounterWebApp/welcome/mkyong
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