Adding Spring Web MVC

I'll try to be brief.

Basically, you need to add a new Servlet on you web.xml, a configuration file (let's call it webApplicationContext.xml) and some Annotations.

This is my example:

My web.xml <servlet> <servlet-name>webApplicationContext</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <init-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/spring/webApplicationContext.xml</param-value> </init-param> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>webApplicationContext</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>

The framework will, on initialization of a DispatcherServlet, look for a file named [servlet-name]-servlet.xml (webApplicationContext-servlet.xml) in WEB-INF by default, but if you provide parameter "contextConfigLocation" you can define a location and name for your configuration file.

My webApplicationContext.xml <?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-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd"> <!--================== Annotation config =====================--> <context:annotation-config/> <!--================== Location of Controllers =====================--> <context:component-scan base-package = "com.vzw.common.gsbsocketapp.web.controller"/> <!--================== InternalResourceViewResolver =====================--> <bean class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name = "viewClass" value = "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/> <property name = "prefix" value = "/jsp/"/> <property name = "suffix" value = ".jsp"/> </bean> </beans>

Which basically is divided in 3 sections:

• We're going to use configuration based onn annotations
• Location of my Controllers
• And where are located my JSP's

In my next entry I'll cover how it looks like a Controller & JSP.