Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide

The MVC architecture for developing web applications continues to be a powerful concept and the most popular design pattern known by developers. Spring MVC is a model-view-controller framework for Java web applications to simplify the writing and testing of Java web applications, which fully integrates with the Spring dependency injection framework.

Your ultimate guide to building a complete web application using all the capabilities of Spring MVC

Overview

Carefully crafted exercises, with detailed explanations for each step, to help you understand the concepts with ease
You will gain a clear understanding of the end to end request/response life cycle, and each logical component’s responsibility
Packed with tips and tricks that will demonstrate the industry best practices on developing a Spring-MVC-based application

In Detail

With the power of annotation-based configuration, Spring MVC makes web application development easy for developers.

This book is a great companion for beginners who want to learn Spring MVC. With the help of real-world examples, you will learn how to create a completely functional web application. You will also get a complete overview of the Spring web development environment and all its key components.

What you will learn from this book

Familiarize yourself with the anatomy of the Spring development environment
Learn about the web application architecture and Spring MVC request flow
Integrate bean validation and custom validation
Use error handling and exception resolving
Discover REST-based web service development and Ajax
Test your web application
Learn how to use Tiles and Web Flow frameworks in your MVC application

Approach

A step-by-step pragmatic approach to web application development using Spring MVC, with relevant screenshots and concise explanations.

Who this book is written for

This book is aimed at helping Java developers who want to teach themselves Spring MVC, even if they have no previous experience with Spring MVC. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic servlet programming concepts, but no prior experience is required.