Employee Leave Management System

Problem Statement:

Develop a web application using Spring MVC with JdbcTemplate where

Architecture:
 Spring MVC – for the controller and web layer
 JdbcTemplate – for database interaction
 Model – simple POJOs for Employee and Leave
 MySQL – as the database
 JSP – as the view technology
Source code :

// Project: Employee Leave Management System

// Stack: Spring MVC, JdbcTemplate, JSP, MySQL

// ---- CONFIGURATION FILE ----

// config/WebAppConfig.java

package config;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

import org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

@Configuration

@EnableWebMvc

@ComponentScan(basePackages = "controller")

public class WebAppConfig {

@Bean

public InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver() {

InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();

resolver.setPrefix("/views/");

resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");

return resolver;

@Bean

public DataSource dataSource() {

DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();

dataSource.setDriverClassName("com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver");

dataSource.setUrl("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/leave_management");

dataSource.setUsername("root");

dataSource.setPassword("password");

return dataSource;

// ---- MODEL CLASSES ----

// model/Employee.java

package model;
public class Employee {

private int id;

private String name;

// Getters and Setters

// model/LeaveRequest.java

package model;

import java.util.Date;

public class LeaveRequest {

private int id;

private int employeeId;

private Date startDate;

private Date endDate;

private String reason;

private String status;

// Getters and Setters

// ---- DAO CLASS ----

// dao/LeaveDAO.java

package dao;

import model.LeaveRequest;

import java.util.List;

public interface LeaveDAO {

void applyLeave(LeaveRequest leave);

List<LeaveRequest> getAllLeaveRequests();

void updateLeaveStatus(int leaveId, String status);

void cancelLeave(int leaveId);

// ---- SERVICE CLASS ----

// service/LeaveService.java

package service;

import dao.LeaveDAO;

import model.LeaveRequest;

import java.util.List;

public class LeaveService {

private LeaveDAO leaveDAO;

public void setLeaveDAO(LeaveDAO leaveDAO) {

this.leaveDAO = leaveDAO;

public void applyLeave(LeaveRequest leave) {

leaveDAO.applyLeave(leave);

public List<LeaveRequest> getLeaveHistory(int employeeId) {

return leaveDAO.getLeaveHistory(employeeId);

public List<LeaveRequest> getAllLeaveRequests() {

return leaveDAO.getAllLeaveRequests();

}
 public void updateLeaveStatus(int leaveId, String status) {

leaveDAO.updateLeaveStatus(leaveId, status);

public void cancelLeave(int leaveId) {

leaveDAO.cancelLeave(leaveId);

// ---- CONTROLLER ----

// controller/LeaveController.java

package controller;

import model.LeaveRequest;

import service.LeaveService;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;

import org.springframework.ui.Model;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;

import java.util.List;

@Controller

public class LeaveController {

@Autowired

private LeaveService leaveService;

@GetMapping("/apply")

public String showApplyForm() {

return "applyLeave";

@PostMapping("/apply")
 public String applyLeave(@ModelAttribute LeaveRequest leave) {

leave.setStatus("Pending");

leaveService.applyLeave(leave);

return "redirect:/history";

@GetMapping("/history")

public String viewHistory(Model model) {

List<LeaveRequest> history = leaveService.getLeaveHistory(1); // Static ID for demo

model.addAttribute("history", history);

return "leaveHistory";

@GetMapping("/admin")

public String adminDashboard(Model model) {

List<LeaveRequest> all = leaveService.getAllLeaveRequests();

model.addAttribute("requests", all);

return "adminDashboard";

@PostMapping("/admin/update")

public String updateStatus(@RequestParam int id, @RequestParam String status) {

leaveService.updateLeaveStatus(id, status);

return "redirect:/admin";

@PostMapping("/cancel")

public String cancelLeave(@RequestParam int id) {

leaveService.cancelLeave(id);

return "redirect:/history";