This example presents the basic concept of using in Spring MVC the XML based configuration.
The technologies used are :
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– Spring 4.3.18
– JDK 1.80
– Maven 3.3.9
You can convert this example to an Eclipse IDE project by going to folder where is the pom.xml is, and use the command :
mvn eclipse:eclipse
Inspired from « Beginning Spring » Mert Caliskan, Kenan Sevindik, Rod Johnson (Foreword by), Jürgen Höller (Foreword by).
package javaspringexamples.spring.springmvcHelloWord.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
/**
*
* @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
*
*/
@Controller
public class HelloController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/hello")
public ModelAndView sayHello() {
ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView();
mv.addObject("message", "Hello JavaSpringExamples Word!");
mv.setViewName("helloWord");
return mv;
}
}
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd" version="3.1"> <servlet> <servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/springmvc-servlet.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.mvc</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="javaspringexamples.spring.springmvcHelloWord" />
<context:annotation-config />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
<% response.sendRedirect("hello.mvc"); %>
<html>
<body>
${message}
</body>
</html>
The output is : Hello JavaSpringExamples Word!
Get the sources of the example from the following GitHub url