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Then you are at right place. Here I’ll demonstrate simple Spring MVC framework for building web applications.
First thing first. I’m using below tools which you may need to download if you don’t have already.
- Tomcat 7.0.65 – Download link.
- Eclipse IDE for
Java EE
Developers (Mars v4.5.1) – Download link. - Spring 4.2.2 (No download required) – we will use Maven dependency.
- JDK 1.8 – Download link.
Main goal for this tutorial to create Spring MVC Application in the simplest way
. This is how ourapplication result will look like. This is a final result once you complete all below steps.
Welcome page ==> index.jsp
Result returns from Controller Class
Now Let’s get started
Step-1
Open Eclipse and Create Dynamic Web Project CrunchifySpringMVCTutorial
.
Step-2
Make sure you use Target Runtime
as Apache Tomcat 7.0
Step-3
Convert Project to Maven Project to add all required Spring MVC dependencies to project.
Steps:
- Right click on project
- Configure
- Convert to Maven project
Step-4
Open pom.xml
file and add below jar dependencies
to project.
Here is my pom.xml
file.
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<
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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"
>
<
modelVersion
>
4.0.0
<
/
modelVersion
>
<
groupId
>
CrunchifySpringMVCTutorial
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
CrunchifySpringMVCTutorial
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
0.0.1
-
SNAPSHOT
<
/
version
>
<
packaging
>
war
<
/
packaging
>
<
dependencies
>
<
dependency
>
<
groupId
>
org
.
springframework
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
spring
-
context
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
4.1.1.RELEASE
<
/
version
>
<
/
dependency
>
<
dependency
>
<
groupId
>
org
.
springframework
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
spring
-
aop
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
4.1.1.RELEASE
<
/
version
>
<
/
dependency
>
<
dependency
>
<
groupId
>
org
.
springframework
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
spring
-
webmvc
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
4.1.1.RELEASE
<
/
version
>
<
/
dependency
>
<
dependency
>
<
groupId
>
org
.
springframework
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
spring
-
web
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
4.1.1.RELEASE
<
/
version
>
<
/
dependency
>
<
dependency
>
<
groupId
>
javax
.
servlet
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
jstl
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
1.2
<
/
version
>
<
/
dependency
>
<
dependency
>
<
groupId
>
commons
-
logging
<
/
groupId
>
<
artifactId
>
commons
-
logging
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
1.1.3
<
/
version
>
<
/
dependency
>
<
/
dependencies
>
<
build
>
<
sourceDirectory
>
src
<
/
sourceDirectory
>
<
plugins
>
<
plugin
>
<
artifactId
>
maven
-
compiler
-
plugin
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
3.1
<
/
version
>
<
configuration
>
<
source
>
1.7
<
/
source
>
<
target
>
1.7
<
/
target
>
<
/
configuration
>
<
/
plugin
>
<
plugin
>
<
artifactId
>
maven
-
war
-
plugin
<
/
artifactId
>
<
version
>
2.4
<
/
version
>
<
configuration
>
<
warSourceDirectory
>
WebContent
<
/
warSourceDirectory
>
<
failOnMissingWebXml
>
false
<
/
failOnMissingWebXml
>
<
/
configuration
>
<
/
plugin
>
<
/
plugins
>
<
/
build
>
<
/
project
>
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Step-5
Create Spring Configuration Bean
file. /WebContent/WEB-INF/crunchify-servlet.xml
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<
beans
xmlns
=
"http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns
:
mvc
=
"http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
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.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd"
>
<
context
:
component
-
scan
base
-
package
=
"com.crunchify.controller"
/
>
<
bean
id
=
"viewResolver"
class
=
"org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"
>
<
property
name
=
"viewClass"
value
=
"org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"
/
>
<
property
name
=
"prefix"
value
=
"/WEB-INF/jsp/"
/
>
<
property
name
=
"suffix"
value
=
".jsp"
/
>
<
/
bean
>
<
/
beans
>
|
In the above crunchify-servlet.xml
configuration file, we have defined a tag <context:component-scan>
. This will allow Spring to load all the components from package com.crunchify.controller
and all its child packages.
This will load our CrunchifyHelloWorld.class
. Also we have defined a bean viewResolver
. This bean will resolve the view and add prefix string /WEB-INF/jsp/
and suffix .jsp to the view in ModelAndView. Note that in our CrunchifyHelloWorld class, we have return a ModelAndView object with view name welcome. This will be resolved to path /WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp
.
Step-6
Map Spring MVC in /WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml
file.
NOTE: if you don’t see web.xml file in your “dynamic web project” then follow these steps.
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<?
xml
version
=
"1.0"
encoding
=
"UTF-8"
?>
<
web
-
app
xmlns
:
xsi
=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns
=
"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi
:
schemaLocation
=
"http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
version
=
"3.0"
>
<
display
-
name
>
CrunchifySpringMVCTutorial
<
/
display
-
name
>
<
welcome
-
file
-
list
>
<
welcome
-
file
>
index
.
jsp
<
/
welcome
-
file
>
<
/
welcome
-
file
-
list
>
<
servlet
>
<
servlet
-
name
>
crunchify
<
/
servlet
-
name
>
<
servlet
-
class
>
org
.
springframework
.
web
.
servlet
.
DispatcherServlet
<
/
servlet
-
class
>
<
load
-
on
-
startup
>
1
<
/
load
-
on
-
startup
>
<
/
servlet
>
<
servlet
-
mapping
>
<
servlet
-
name
>
crunchify
<
/
servlet
-
name
>
<
url
-
pattern
>
/
welcome
.
jsp
<
/
url
-
pattern
>
<
url
-
pattern
>
/
welcome
.
html
<
/
url
-
pattern
>
<
url
-
pattern
>
*
.
html
<
/
url
-
pattern
>
<
/
servlet
-
mapping
>
<
/
web
-
app
>
|
The above code in web.xml
will map DispatcherServlet with url pattern /welcome.jsp
. Also note that we have define index.jsp
as welcome file.
One thing to note here is the name of servlet in <servlet-name> tag in web.xml. Once the DispatcherServlet is initialized, it will looks for a file name [servlet-name]-servlet.xml
in WEB-INF folder of web application. In this example, the framework will look for file called crunchify-servlet.xml
.
Step-7
Create Controller Class.
- Package: com.crunchify.controller
- Filename: CrunchifyHelloWorld.java
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package
com
.
crunchify
.
controller
;
import
org
.
springframework
.
stereotype
.
Controller
;
import
org
.
springframework
.
web
.
bind
.
annotation
.
RequestMapping
;
import
org
.
springframework
.
web
.
servlet
.
ModelAndView
;
/*
* author: Crunchify.com
*
*/
@Controller
public
class
CrunchifyHelloWorld
{
@RequestMapping
(
"/welcome"
)
public
ModelAndView
helloWorld
(
)
{
String
message
=
"<br><div style='text-align:center;'>"
+
"<h3>********** Hello World, Spring MVC Tutorial</h3>This message is coming from CrunchifyHelloWorld.java **********</div><br><br>"
;
return
new
ModelAndView
(
"welcome"
,
"message"
,
message
)
;
}
}
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Note that we have annotated the CrunchifyHelloWorld
class with @Controller
and@RequestMapping("/welcome").
When Spring scans our package, it will recognize this bean as being a Controller bean for processing requests. The @RequestMapping
annotation tells Spring that this Controller should process all requests beginning with /welcome in the URL path. That includes/welcome/*
and /welcome.html
.
The helloWorld() method returns ModelAndView
object. The ModelAndView object tries to resolve to a view named “welcome” and the data model is being passed back to the browser so we can access the data within the JSP. The logical view name will resolve to /WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp
. Logical name “welcome” which is return in ModelAndView object is mapped to path /WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp.
The ModelAndView object also contains a message with key “message” and Detailed value. This is the data that we are passing to our view. Normally this will be a value object in form of java bean that will contain the data to be displayed on our view. Here we are simply passing a string.
Step-8
The View – Create /WebContent/index.jsp
.
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<
html
>
<
head
>
<
title
>
Spring
MVC
Tutorial
Series
by
Crunchify
.
com
<
/
title
>
<style
type
="text/css">
body
{
background-image
:
url
(
'http://crunchify.com/bg.png'
)
;
}
</style>
<
/
head
>
<
body
>
<
br
>
<
div
style
=
"text-align:center"
>
<
h2
>
Hey
You
.
.
!
!
This
is
your
1st
Spring
MCV
Tutorial
.
.
<
br
>
<
br
>
<
/
h2
>
<
h3
>
<
a
href
=
"welcome.html"
>
Click
here
to
See
Welcome
Message
.
.
.
<
/
a
>
(
to
check
Spring
MVC
Controller
.
.
.
@
RequestMapping
(
"/welcome"
)
)
<
/
h3
>
<
/
div
>
<
/
body
>
<
/
html
>
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Create /WebContent/WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp
file.
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<
html
>
<
head
>
<
title
>
Spring
MVC
Tutorial
by
Crunchify
-
Hello
World
Spring
MVC
Example
<
/
title
>
<style
type
="text/css">
body
{
background-image
:
url
(
'http://crunchify.com/bg.png'
)
;
}
</style>
<
/
head
>
<
body
>
$
{
message
}
<
br
>
<
br
>
<
div
style
=
"font-family: verdana; padding: 10px; border-radius: 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align:center;"
>
Spring
MCV
Tutorial
by
<
a
href
=
"http://crunchify.com"
>
Crunchify
<
/
a
>
.
Click
<
a
href
=
"http://crunchify.com/category/java-web-development-tutorial/"
target
=
"_blank"
>
here
<
/
a
>
for
all
Java
and
<
a
href
=
'http://crunchify.com/category/spring-mvc/'
target
=
'_blank'
>
here
<
/
a
>
for
all
Spring
MVC
,
Web
Development
examples
.
<
br
>
<
/
div
>
<
/
body
>
<
/
html
>
|
After everything this is how your workspace should look like.
Step-9
Right Click on Project -> Run As -> Maven Build...
Add Goals
: clean install
. Click Apply
and Run
.
You should see build success message:
Where are all of my .jar files?
You will see all .jar files under /target
folder. Screenshot.
Step-10
Deploy project to Apache Tomcat
and start tomcat.
Make sure you see below logs. That means your application is successfully deployed on Tomcat Web Server.
Step-11
Visit: http://localhost:8080/CrunchifySpringMVCTutorial/ and you should be all set.
Hurrey.. Now you know Hello World Spring MVC 4 Example
. Let me know if you encounter any exception while running this. There are lot more example you can find here.
Do you want to include JS, CSS and images into JSP file?
Follow this tutorial: Best way to Add/Integrate JS, CSS and images into JSP file using ‘mvc:resources mapping’
Having trouble? Any issue?
Triaging step-1
Make sure you add Apache Tomcat Server to Targeted Runtime
. Which you may have selected in Step-1
. Tomcat 7 or 8 any – server should work.
Triaging Step-2
Make sure to update all maven dependencies.