Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Unleash the power of the latest Spring MVC 4.x to develop a complete applicationAbout This BookWork through carefully crafted exercises with detailed explanations for each step will help you understand the concepts with easeYou will gain a clear understanding of the end-to-end request/response life cycle, and each logical component's responsibilityThis book is packed with tips and tricks that demonstrate industry best practices on developing a Spring-MVC-based applicationWho This Book Is ForThe 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 LearnFamiliarize yourself with the anatomy of the Spring 4.X development environmentUnderstand web application architecture and the Spring MVC request flowIntegrate bean validation and custom validationUse error handling and exception resolvingGet to grips with REST-based web service development and AjaxTest your web applicationIn DetailSpring 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 approachThis book takes a pragmatic step-by-step approach to web application development using Spring MVC, with informative screenshots and concise explanation.