Spring MVC is the web component of Spring’s framework. It provides a rich functionality for building robust 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 like Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces and Tapestry. It means that you can even instruct Spring to use any one of the Web Frameworks. More than that Spring is not tightly coupled with Servlets or JSP to render the View to the Clients. Integration with other View technologies like Velocity, Freemarker, Excel or Pdf is also possible now.
Let us quickly check how to access http Header information in Spring MVC Controller. Spring @RequestHeader Annotation Spring MVC provides annotation @RequestHeader that can be used to map controller parameter to request header value....
Spring MVC provides a great way to handle exceptions and errors. @ExceptionHandler annotation is core to this feature. For each Spring controller we can simply define a method that automatically gets called if a...
In this post we will see how to access and modify http cookies of a webpage in Spring MVC framework. Read Http Cookie in Spring MVC Spring 3 MVC framework provides a very useful...
Spring MVC 3.1 version has added a very useful feature Flash attribute which it lacked and is now solving a long time problem of POST/Redirect/GET pattern. In a normal Web based MVC application each form submitted...
Spring MVC provides a powerful mechanism to intercept an http request. Similar to Servlet Filter concept, Spring MVC provides a way to define special classes called Interceptors that gets called before and after a request...
Sometimes Spring MVC will amaze you with totally unexpected exceptions. You have no idea why that is coming. For instance, recently I wrote a small piece of Spring MVC Controller code, one like below:...
In this simple tutorial we will see how to implement multiple file upload in a Spring 3 MVC based application. The requirement is simple. We have a form which displays file input component. User...
Spring MVC provides powerful way to manage form inputs. It also provides form validation functionality which is easy to integrate in any application. But other than the normal form bean mapping, recently I had a requirement...
Welcome to Freemarker Tutorial Series. In previous post we created Servlet based Hello World Freemarker Template example. We learned few APIs of freemarker and also how to integrate it with Servlet based application. Following are...
Let us implement Autocomplete feature in Spring MVC application using JQuery. Autocomplete is a feature you”ll see in almost all good web apps. It allows user to select proper values from a list of...