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Spring MVC
Simina Muresan

May 2017

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Agenda

Spring Framework and what does Spring Offer

What is Spring MVC

Request processing lifecycle

Key Artifacts

Dispatcher Servlet

Controllers

Views

Application

http://start.spring.io/

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Spring framework
 A popular and stable Java application framework for enterprise development
- Well established in enterprise Java apps
 A primary purpose is to reduce dependencies
- Different from almost every other framework out there
- Part of the reason it has been adopted so quickly
 Considered an alternative / replacement for the Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) model

What does Spring offer

 Dependency Injection
- Also known as IoC (Inversion of Control)

 Aspect Oriented Programming

- Runtime injection-based

 Portable Service Abstractions

- The rest of spring

 ORM, DAO, Web MVC, Web, etc.

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Spring framework- Dependency Injection

 Any nontrivial application is made up of two or more classes that collaborate with each other to
perform some business logic. Traditionally, each object is responsible for obtaining its own
references to the objects it collaborates with (its dependencies). When applying DI, the objects
are given their dependencies at creation time by some external entity that coordinates each
object in the system. In other words, dependencies are injected into objects.

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What is Spring MVC

 Web framework based on Model/View/Controller pattern

 Based on “Open for extension, close for modification” principle

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Request Processing Lifecycle

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DispatcherServlet – The heart of Spring MVC

 A “front controller”
- Coordinates all request handling activities

 Delegates to Web infrastructure beans

 Invokes user Web components

 Fully customizable
- Interface for all infrastructure beans
- Many extension points
An application can have multiple instance of DispatcherServlet each mapped on
a specific URL

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DispatcherServlet– Java Configuration Example ( works only in Servlet 3.0 )

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Register Servlets, Filters, Listeners

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Web Initializer Classes

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DispatcherServlet – XML Configuration Example (pre Servlet 3.0)

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Servlet Container

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Controllers @Controller annotation

 What is an Controller?
- Controllers interpret user input and transform it into a model that is represented to the user by the
view
 @Controller annotation:
- Acts as a stereotype annotations indicating the role

- @ComponentScan("accounts.web") or <context:component-scan base

package="accounts.web"/>

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Controllers
 Mapping Requests with @RequestMapping annotation
- @RequestMapping(path="/accounts", method=GET) Or @GetMapping(“/accounts”)
 @GetMapping
 @PostMapping
 @PutMapping
 @DeleteMapping
- UriTemplate Template Patterns -> @PathVariable
- Consumable Media Types -> @RequestBody
- Producible Media Types -> @ResponseBody
- Extracting Request Parameter with @RequestParam

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Views and View Resolvers

 A view renders web output
 Controllers typically return a ‘logical view name’ String
 ViewResolvers selects View based on view name

 The DispatcherServlet delegates to a ViewResolver to obtain View implementation

based on view name
- InternalResourceViewResolver
- TilesViewResolver
- VelocityViewResolver
- FreeMakerViewResolver

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Views and View Resolvers configuring ViewResolver

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Application

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start.spring.io

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Q&A

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