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Spring MVC Beginner's Guide: Your ultimate guide to building a complete web application using all the capabilities of Spring MVC

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Spring MVC Beginner's Guide

Chapter 2. Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store

What we saw in the first chapter is nothing but a glimpse of Spring MVC; in the previous chapter, our total focus was just on getting it to run a Spring MVC application. Now, it's time for us to deep-dive into Spring MVC architecture.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a clear understanding of:

  • The dispatcher servlet and request mapping
  • The web application context and configuration
  • The Spring MVC request flow and Web MVC
  • The web application architecture

The dispatcher servlet

In the first chapter, we were introduced to the dispatcher servlet and saw how to define a dispatcher servlet in web.xml. We learned that every web request first comes to the dispatcher servlet. The dispatcher servlet is the one that decides the controller method that it should dispatch the web request to. In the previous chapter, we created a welcome page that will be shown whenever we enter the URL http://localhost:8080/webstore/ on the browser. Mapping a URL to the appropriate controller method is the primary duty of a dispatcher servlet.

So the dispatcher servlet reads the web request URL and finds the appropriate controller method that can serve that web request and invokes it. This process of mapping a web request to a specific controller method is called request mapping, and the dispatcher servlet is able to do this with the help of the @RequestMapping annotation (org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping).

Time for action – examining request mapping

Let's observe what will happen when you change the value attribute of the @RequestMapping annotation by executing the following steps:

  1. Open your STS and run the webstore project; just right-click on your project and choose Run As | Run on Server. You will be able to view the same welcome message on the browser.
  2. Now, go to the address bar of the browser and enter the URL, http://localhost:8080/webstore/welcome.
  3. You will see the HTTP Status 404 error page on the browser, and you will also see the following warning in the console:
    WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/webstore/welcome] in DispatcherServlet with name ' DefaultServlet'
    Time for action – examining request mapping

    An error log displaying the "No mapping found" warning message

  4. Now, open the HomeController class, change the @RequestMapping annotation's value attribute to /welcome, and save it. Basically, your new request mapping annotation will look like @RequestMapping("/welcome...

The web application context

In a Spring-based application, our application objects live within an object container. This container creates objects and associations between objects, and manages their complete life cycle. These container objects are called Spring-managed beans (or simply beans), and the container is called an application context in the Spring world.

A Spring container uses dependency injection (DI) to manage the beans that make up an application. An application context (org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext) creates beans and associate beans together based on the bean configuration and dispenses beans on request. A bean configuration can be defined via an XML file, annotation, or even via Java configuration classes. We will use only XML- and annotation-based bean configurations in our chapters.

A web application context is the extension of an application context, designed to work with the standard servlet context (javax.servlet.ServletContext). A web application context...

Time for action – understanding the web application context

You have received enough of an introduction on the web application context; now, tweak a little bit with the name and location of the web application context configuration file (DefaultServlet-servlet.xml) and observe the effect. Perform the following steps:

  1. Rename the DefaultServlet-servlet.xml file to DispatcherServlet-servlet.xml; you can find DefaultServlet-servlet.xml under the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ directory.
  2. Then, run your webstore project again and enter the URL, http://localhost:8080/webstore/; you will see an HTTP Status 500 error message on your web page and a FileNotFoundException error in the stack trace as follows:
    java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/DefaultServlet-servlet.xml]
    Time for action – understanding the web application context

    An error message displaying FileNotFoundException for DefaultServlet-servlet.xml

  3. To fix this error, change the name of DefaultServlet to DispatcherServlet in web.xml; basically, after changing...

The web application context configuration

The web application context configuration file (DispatcherServlet-context.xml) is nothing but a simple Spring bean configuration file. Spring will create beans (objects) for every bean definition mentioned in this file during bootup of our application. If you open this web application context configuration file (/WEB-INF/spring/webcontext/DispatcherServlet-context.xml), you will find some configuration and bean definition as follows:

<?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"
  xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context...

View resolvers

We saw the purpose of the first two tags that are specified within the web application context configuration file:

<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.packt.webstore" />

Based on these tags, Spring creates the necessary beans to handle a web request and also creates beans for all the @Controller classes. However, to run a Spring MVC application successfully, Spring needs one more bean; this bean is called a view resolver.

A view resolver helps the dispatcher servlet identify the views that have to be rendered as the response for a specific web request. Spring MVC provides various view resolver implementations to identify views, and InternalResourceViewResolver is one such implementation. The final tag in the web application context configuration is the bean definition for the InternalResourceViewResolver class as follows:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property...

The dispatcher servlet

In the first chapter, we were introduced to the dispatcher servlet and saw how to define a dispatcher servlet in web.xml. We learned that every web request first comes to the dispatcher servlet. The dispatcher servlet is the one that decides the controller method that it should dispatch the web request to. In the previous chapter, we created a welcome page that will be shown whenever we enter the URL http://localhost:8080/webstore/ on the browser. Mapping a URL to the appropriate controller method is the primary duty of a dispatcher servlet.

So the dispatcher servlet reads the web request URL and finds the appropriate controller method that can serve that web request and invokes it. This process of mapping a web request to a specific controller method is called request mapping, and the dispatcher servlet is able to do this with the help of the @RequestMapping annotation (org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping).

Time for action – examining request mapping

Let's observe what will happen when you change the value attribute of the @RequestMapping annotation by executing the following steps:

  1. Open your STS and run the webstore project; just right-click on your project and choose Run As | Run on Server. You will be able to view the same welcome message on the browser.

  2. Now, go to the address bar of the browser and enter the URL, http://localhost:8080/webstore/welcome.

  3. You will see the HTTP Status 404 error page on the browser, and you will also see the following warning in the console:

    WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/webstore/welcome] in DispatcherServlet with name ' DefaultServlet'

    An error log displaying the "No mapping found" warning message

  4. Now, open the HomeController class, change the @RequestMapping annotation's value attribute to /welcome, and save it. Basically, your new request mapping annotation will look like @RequestMapping("/welcome").

  5. Again, run the application and enter...

The web application context

In a Spring-based application, our application objects live within an object container. This container creates objects and associations between objects, and manages their complete life cycle. These container objects are called Spring-managed beans (or simply beans), and the container is called an application context in the Spring world.

A Spring container uses dependency injection (DI) to manage the beans that make up an application. An application context (org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext) creates beans and associate beans together based on the bean configuration and dispenses beans on request. A bean configuration can be defined via an XML file, annotation, or even via Java configuration classes. We will use only XML- and annotation-based bean configurations in our chapters.

A web application context is the extension of an application context, designed to work with the standard servlet context (javax.servlet.ServletContext). A web application context...

Time for action – understanding the web application context

You have received enough of an introduction on the web application context; now, tweak a little bit with the name and location of the web application context configuration file (DefaultServlet-servlet.xml) and observe the effect. Perform the following steps:

  1. Rename the DefaultServlet-servlet.xml file to DispatcherServlet-servlet.xml; you can find DefaultServlet-servlet.xml under the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/ directory.

  2. Then, run your webstore project again and enter the URL, http://localhost:8080/webstore/; you will see an HTTP Status 500 error message on your web page and a FileNotFoundException error in the stack trace as follows:

    java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/DefaultServlet-servlet.xml]

    An error message displaying FileNotFoundException for DefaultServlet-servlet.xml

  3. To fix this error, change the name of DefaultServlet to DispatcherServlet in web.xml; basically, after changing the...

The web application context configuration

The web application context configuration file (DispatcherServlet-context.xml) is nothing but a simple Spring bean configuration file. Spring will create beans (objects) for every bean definition mentioned in this file during bootup of our application. If you open this web application context configuration file (/WEB-INF/spring/webcontext/DispatcherServlet-context.xml), you will find some configuration and bean definition as follows:

<?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"
  xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4...

View resolvers

We saw the purpose of the first two tags that are specified within the web application context configuration file:

<mvc:annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.packt.webstore" />

Based on these tags, Spring creates the necessary beans to handle a web request and also creates beans for all the @Controller classes. However, to run a Spring MVC application successfully, Spring needs one more bean; this bean is called a view resolver.

A view resolver helps the dispatcher servlet identify the views that have to be rendered as the response for a specific web request. Spring MVC provides various view resolver implementations to identify views, and InternalResourceViewResolver is one such implementation. The final tag in the web application context configuration is the bean definition for the InternalResourceViewResolver class as follows:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix...

Time for action – understanding InternalResourceViewResolver

We instruct Spring to create a bean for an InternalResourceViewResolver class, but why? Who is going to use this bean? What is the role of the InternalResourceViewResolver bean in Spring MVC? Find the answer to these questions through the following exercise:

  1. Open DispatcherServlet-context.xml; you can find this file under the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/webcontext/ directory in your project.

  2. Change the prefix property value of the InternalResourceViewResolver bean as follows:

    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />

  3. Now, run your webstore project again and enter the URL http://localhost:8080/webstore/. You will see an HTTP Status 404 error message in your browser as shown in the following screenshot:

    An error page displaying the no resource found message

  4. Then, rename the jsp directory (/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jsp) to views.

  5. Finally, run your application and enter the URL, http://localhost:8080/webstore/. You will see...

Model View Controller

So far, we have seen lots of concepts, such as the dispatcher servlet, request mapping, controllers, and view resolver; it would be good to see the overall picture of the Spring MVC request flow so that we can understand each component's responsibilities. However, before that, we need to understand the Model View Controller (MVC) concept some more. Every enterprise-level application's presentation layer can logically be divided into the following three major parts:

  • The part that manages the data (Model)

  • The part that creates the user interface and screens (View)

  • The part that handles interactions between the user, user interface, and data (Controller)

The following diagram will help you understand the event flow and command flow within an MVC pattern:

The classic MVC pattern

Whenever a user interacts with the view by clicking on a link or button, the view issues an event notification to the controller, and the controller issues a command notification to the model to update...

An overview of the Spring MVC request flow

The main entry point for a web request in a Spring MVC application is via the dispatcher servlet. The dispatcher servlet acts as the front controller and dispatches the requests to the other controller. The front controller's main duty is to find the appropriate controller to hand over the request for further processing. The following diagram shows an overview of the request flow in a Spring MVC application:

The Spring MVC request flow

Now, let's review the Spring MVC request flow in short:

  1. When we enter a URL in the browser, the request comes to the dispatcher servlet. The dispatcher servlet then acts as a centralized entry point to the web application.

  2. The dispatcher servlet determines a suitable controller that is capable of handling the request and dispatching this request to the controller.

  3. The controller method updates objects in the model and returns the logical view name and updated model to the dispatcher servlet.

  4. The dispatcher servlet consults...

The web application architecture

Now, we understand the overall request flow and responsibility of each component in a typical Spring MVC application. However, this is not enough for us to build an online web store application. We also need to know the best practices to develop an enterprise-level web application. One of the best practices in a typical web application is to organize source code into layers, which will improve reusability and loose coupling. A typical web application normally has four layers: the presentation, domain, services, and persistence. So far, whatever we have seen, such as the dispatcher servlet, controllers, view resolvers, and so on, is considered a part of the presentation layer components. Let's understand the remaining layers and components one by one.

The domain layer

Let's start with the domain layer. A domain layer typically consists of a domain model. So, what is a domain model? A domain model is a representation of the data storage types required by the business logic. It describes the various domain objects (entities); their attributes, roles, and relationships; plus the constraints that govern the problem domain. Take a look at the following domain model diagram for order processing to get a quick idea about the domain model:

Sample domain model

Each block in the preceding diagram represents a business entity, and the lines represent the associations between the entities. Based on the preceding domain model diagram, we can understand that, in an order processing domain, a customer can have many orders, each order can have many order items, and each order item represents a single product.

During coding, the domain model will be converted into corresponding domain objects and associations by a developer. A domain object is a logical...

Time for action – creating a domain object

So far, in your webstore, you have showed only a welcome message. It is now time for you to show your first product on the web page. Do this by creating a domain object, as follows, to represent the product information:

  1. Create a class called Product under the com.packt.webstore.domain package in the source folder src/main/java. Now, add the following code into it:

    package com.packt.webstore.domain;

import java.math.BigDecimal;

public class Product {

  private String productId;
  private String name;
  private BigDecimal unitPrice;
  private String description;
  private String manufacturer;
  private String category;
  private long unitsInStock;
  private long unitsInOrder;
  private boolean discontinued;
private String condition;

  public Product() {
    super();
}

  public Product(String productId, String name, BigDecimal unitPrice) {
    this.productId = productId;
    this.name = name;
    this.unitPrice = unitPrice;
  }

  // add setters...
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A step-by-step pragmatic approach to web application development using Spring MVC, with relevant screenshots and concise explanations. This book is aimed at helping Java developers who want to teach themselves Spring MVC, even if they have no previous experience with Spring MVC. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic servlet programming concepts, but no prior experience is required.

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  • Familiarize yourself with the anatomy of the Spring development environment
  • Learn about the web application architecture and Spring MVC request flow
  • Integrate bean validation and custom validation
  • Use error handling and exception resolving
  • Discover RESTbased web service development and Ajax
  • Test your web application
  • Learn how to use Tiles and Web Flow frameworks in your MVC application
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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
1. Configuring a Spring Development Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Configuring a Spring Development Environment
Setting up Java
Time for action – installing JDK
Time for action – setting up environment variables
Configuring a build tool
Time for action – installing the Maven build tool
Installing a web server
Time for action – installing the Tomcat web server
Configuring a development environment
Time for action – installing Spring Tool Suite
Time for action – configuring Tomcat on STS
Time for action – configuring Maven on STS
Creating our first Spring MVC project
Time for action – creating a Spring MVC project in STS
Time for action – adding Spring jars to the project
Time for action – adding Java version properties in pom.xml
Time for action – adding a welcome page
Time for action – configuring the dispatcher servlet
Time for action – running the project
Summary
2. Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store
The dispatcher servlet
Time for action – examining request mapping
The web application context
Time for action – understanding the web application context
The web application context configuration
View resolvers
Time for action – understanding InternalResourceViewResolver
Model View Controller
An overview of the Spring MVC request flow
The web application architecture
The domain layer
Time for action – creating a domain object
The persistence layer
Time for action – creating a repository object
The service layer
Time for action – creating a service object
An overview of the web application architecture
Summary
3. Control Your Store with Controllers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Control Your Store with Controllers
Defining a controller
Time for action – adding class-level request mapping
The role of a controller in Spring MVC
Handler mapping
Using URI template patterns
Time for action – showing products based on category
Using matrix variables
Time for action – showing the products based on filter
Understanding request parameters
Time for action – adding the product details page
Time for action – implementing a master detail view
Summary
4. Working with Spring Tag Libraries Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Working with Spring Tag Libraries
Serving and processing forms
Time for action – serving and processing forms
Customizing data binding
Time for action – whitelisting form fields
Externalizing text messages
Time for action – externalizing messages
Using Spring Security tags
Time for action – adding a login page
Summary
5. Working with View Resolver Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Working with View Resolver
Resolving views
The redirect view
Time for action – examining RedirectView
Serving static resources
Time for action – serving static resources
Time for action – adding images to the product detail page
The multipart request in action
Time for action – adding images to the product page
Using ContentNegotiatingViewResolver
Time for action – configuring ContentNegotiatingViewResolver
Working with the handler exception resolver
Time for action – adding the response status exception
Time for action – adding an exception handler
Summary
6. Intercept Your Store with Interceptor Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Intercept Your Store with Interceptor
Working with interceptors
Time for action – configuring an interceptor
Internationalization (i18n)
Time for action – adding internationalization
Audit logging
Time for action – adding the data audit interceptor
Conditional redirecting
Time for action – intercepting offer page requests
Summary
7. Validate Your Products with a Validator Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Validate Your Products with a Validator
Bean validation
Time for action – adding bean validation support
Custom validation with JSR-303 / bean validation
Time for action – adding custom validation support
Spring validation
Time for action – adding Spring validation
Time for action – combining Spring and bean validations
Summary
8. Give REST to Your Application with Ajax Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Give REST to Your Application with Ajax
Introducing REST
Time for action – implementing RESTful web services
Time for action – consuming REST web services
Handling a web service in Ajax
Time for action – consuming REST web services via Ajax
Summary
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9. Apache Tiles and Spring Web Flow in Action
Working with Spring Web Flow
Time for action – implementing the order-processing service
Time for action – implementing the checkout flow
Time for action – creating views for every view state
Enhancing reusability through Apache Tiles
Time for action – creating views for every view state
Summary
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10. Testing Your Application
Unit testing
Time for action – unit-testing domain objects
Integration testing with the Spring Test Context framework
Time for action – testing the product validator
Time for action – testing the product controller
Time for action – testing REST controllers
Summary
A. Using the Gradle Build Tool Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A. Using the Gradle Build Tool
Installing Gradle
The Gradle build script for your project
Understanding the Gradle script
B. Pop Quiz Answers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2, Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store
Chapter 3, Control Your Store with Controllers
Chapter 5, Working with View Resolver
Chapter 6, Intercept Your Store with Interceptor
Chapter 9, Apache Tiles and Spring Web Flow in Action
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I'm a couple chapters into the book and am learning a lot. If you're new to Spring I would recommend that you check out a good Spring class on Udemy first before picking up this book(or any Spring book) as it will save you a lot of pain and frustration. Not because the because this book is bad but Spring is a complicated topic(multiple ways of accomplishing the same thing) and there is no substitute for narration plus video. Chad Darby's Spring + Hibernate for beginner's would be an excellent choice. You'll also pick up a lot of nice tricks in Eclipse that you just can't get without watching someone do it on a screen(ex - auto-generate getters and setters). I'd use this book as a follow on after you've done a class like Chad's and you'll be able to get a lot more out of it.
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Just started reading the book. So far, it does a nice job of providing details and examples.
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i have been trying to find a good spring book, this book is straight forward, and explanation is very good, no beating around the bush and bore you to death with unnecessary expert info. This book also make great reference.
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