Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Amuthan Ganeshan

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785880636
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Unleash the power of the latest Spring MVC 4.x to develop a complete application

About This Book

• Work through carefully crafted exercises with detailed explanations for each step will 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
• This book is packed with tips and tricks that demonstrate industry best practices on developing a Spring-MVC-based application

Who This Book Is For

The book is for Java developers who want to exploit Spring MVC and its features to build web applications. Some familiarity with basic servlet programming concepts would be a plus, but is not a prerequisite.

What You Will Learn

• Familiarize yourself with the anatomy of the Spring 4.X development environment
• Understand web application architecture and the Spring MVC request flow
• Integrate bean validation and custom validation
• Use error handling and exception resolving
• Get to grips with REST-based web service development and Ajax
• Test your web application

In Detail

Spring MVC helps you build flexible and loosely coupled web applications. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also, Spring can integrate effortlessly with other popular web frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces, and Tapestry.

The book progressively teaches you to configure the Spring development environment, architecture, controllers, libraries, and more before moving on to developing a full web application. It begins with an introduction to the Spring development environment and architecture so you're familiar with the know-hows. From here, we move on to controllers, views, validations, Spring Tag libraries, and more. Finally, we integrate it all together to develop a web application. You'll also get to grips with testing applications for reliability.

Style and approach

This book takes a pragmatic step-by-step approach to web application development using Spring MVC, with informative screenshots and concise explanation.

Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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Second edition: July 2016

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Credits

Author Amuthan Ganeshan	Copy Editor Ameesha Smith-Green
Reviewer Rafał Borowiec	Project Coordinator Ulhas Kambali
Commiss ioning Editor Nadeem Bagban	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acq uisition Editor Vinay Argekar	Indexer Rekha Nair
Content Development Editor Prashanth G Rao	Production Coordinator Melwyn Dsa
Technical Editor Murtaza Tinwala	Cover Work Melwyn Dsa

About the Author

Amuthan Ganeshan is a software engineer with more than nine years of experience specializing in building distributed applications. He currently works as a senior software engineer at Uptake. He is a big data enthusiast and loves sharing knowledge about software development and practices through his blog at www.codeculture.guru. He can be contacted at [email protected].

I would like to gratefully and sincerely thank Mr.Vincent Kok for his guidance, understanding, patience, and, most importantly, his friendship during my first job at Educator Inc. His mentorship has helped me to become a well-rounded professional. He encouraged me to not only grow as a developer, but also as an independent thinker.

I want to take a moment and express my gratitude to the entire team at Packt Publishing especially Murtaza Tinwala, Anish Dhurat, and Vinay Argekar, for their patience and cooperation. When I signed up for this book, I really had no idea how things would turn out. I couldn't have pulled this off without their guidance.

I would like to express my gratitude to all my friends and family for providing me with unending encouragement and support. I owe every challenge and accomplishment to all my lovely colleagues who taught me a lot over the years.

A special thanks to Divya and Arun for their encouragement, friendship, and support. They were a strong shoulder to lean on in the most difficult times during the writing of this book.

Finally, and most importantly, I would like to thank my wife Manju, who believes in me more than I do myself. Her support, encouragement, quiet patience, and unwavering love were undeniably the bedrock upon which my life has been built.

About the Reviewer

Rafał Borowiec is an IT specialist, specializing in software development, software testing and quality assurance, project management, and team leadership. He currently holds the position of a development manager at Goyello (goyello.com), where he is mainly responsible for building and managing teams of professional developers and testers.

He believes in agile project management and is a big fan of technology, especially technology that is Java-related (but not limited to this). Rafał likes sharing knowledge about software development and practices through his blog, blog.codeleak.pl , and Twitter (@kolorobot).

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Preface

This book has a very clear aim; to introduce you to the incredible simplicity and power of Spring MVC. I still remember first learning about the Spring framework back in 2009. The best way to test whether or not you really understand a concept is to try to teach it to someone else. In my case, I have taught Spring MVC to MVC; are you confused? I mean that back in 2009, I taught it to my wife Manju Viswambaran Chandrika (MVC). During that course, I was able to understand the kind of doubts that arise in a beginner's mind. I have gathered all my teaching knowledge and put it in this book in an elegant way so that it can be understood without confusion.

It has been more than two years since the first edition of this book presented readers with a beginner-friendly way of explaining the concepts of Spring MVC. The popular reception of the book and the rapid development of the Spring MVC framework naturally demands a new edition.

In the two years since the first edition of this book was published I have received all kinds of suggestions from readers how it could be improved. With the aid of all this information I have completely revised the book. The most obvious changes in this second edition are usage of the latest and greatest versions of Spring and other libraries.

The examples in this book are completely rewritten using Spring 4.3.0.RELEASE version with Java-based configuration. Also in this edition we incorporated the popular in-memory database (HSQL DB) as our backend data-store for the example project. Though this edition includes many changes, my main audience remains the beginners.

I hope you will find this second edition more useful for learning Spring MVC thoroughly from a beginner's perspective.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Configuring a Spring Development Environment, will give you a quick overview of Spring MVC and guide you with detailed notes of step-by-step instructions to set up your development environment. After installing the required prerequisites, you will try out a quick example of how to develop an application with Spring MVC. Although the chapter doesn’t explain all the code in detail, you’ll pick up a few things intuitively.

Chapter 2, Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store, lays down the ground work for the sample application that we are going to build along the way, chapter by chapter. This chapter will introduce you to concepts such as Request mapping, the web application context, Spring MVC request flow, and the layered architecture of a typical web application. You will also learn about how to set up the in-memory database for our sample application.

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