How to create HelloWorld Spring MVC Web application using Maven and Eclipse

In this blog post, I will be explaining how you can create a Spring MVC web application. In order to learn the Spring framework from scratch, you can enroll in this Spring Course.

Create a Project and And Maven Support

Step 1 – Follow the steps in this article to create a web project in Eclipse with Maven Support. You should see a project as follows:

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Step 2 – Add the Maven Dependencies for Spring to the pom file as follows:

<dependencies>  <dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>    <version>5.1.3.RELEASE</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>    <version>5.1.3.RELEASE</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>    <version>5.1.3.RELEASE</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>    <version>5.1.3.RELEASE</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>    <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>    <version>5.1.3.RELEASE</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>    <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>    <version>1.2</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>    <version>1.2</version>  </dependency>  <dependency>    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>    <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>    <version>3.1.0</version>    <scope>provided</scope>  </dependency></dependencies>

 

Add Spring Configuration

Step 1 – Right-click on WebContent/WEB-INF –>New –> File

Step 2 – Type some name. The name should be of the format <name>-servlet.xml. Here, I have used learnjava-servlet.xml

Step 3 – Click “Finish”. This will create a file as follows:

Step 4 – Enter the following text and save:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"  xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  xsi:schemaLocation="        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans             http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc         http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context         http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">     <context:component-scan    base-package="com.learnjava.controller" />        <mvc:annotation-driven />  <mvc:default-servlet-handler />   <bean id="viewResolver"    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">    <property name="viewClass"      value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />  </bean> </beans>

 

Modify web.xml

Step 1 – Create web.xml (if it does not exist). Refer to this article

Step 2 – Update web.xml to include the Spring MVC Configuration. So add the following:

<servlet>      <servlet-name>learnjava</servlet-name>      <servlet-class>          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet      </servlet-class>      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>  </servlet>  <servlet-mapping>      <servlet-name>learnjava</servlet-name>      <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>  </servlet-mapping>

 

Add Code

Step 1 – Create a new controller class in src folder as follows:

Step 2 – Add the following code:

package com.learnjava.controller;import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;@Controllerpublic class HelloWorldController {  @RequestMapping("/hello")  public ModelAndView helloWorld() {     System.out.println("In HelloWorldController");    String message = "<br><div style='text-align:center;'>"        + "<h1>Hello World</h1></div><br><br>";    return new ModelAndView("hello", "message", message);  }}

 

Step 3  – Create the WEB-INF/jsp folder as follows:

Step 3 – Enter folder name as “jsp”

Step 4 – Create hello.jsp

Step 5 – Add the following code:

<html><head>LearnJava SpringMVC Example</title></head><body>${message}   <br>  <br>  <div    style="font-family: verdana; padding: 10px; border-radius: 10px; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;">     Visit <a href="https://learnjava.co.in">LearnJava</a> to learn more Java stuff!!.    </div></body></html>

Compile

Step 1 – Right Click on Project –> Run As –> Maven Build

Step 2 – If prompted, enter the goals as Clean –> Install

This will display a build success message as follows:

Test

You will need to have Tomcat setup in Eclipse. If you do not have Tomcat set up, refer to this blog post.

Step 1 – Right click on “Tomcat Server” at the bottom and click Add/Remove:

Step 2 – Select SpringMVCJSPDemo project and click “Add”:

 

Step 3 – Click on Finish.

Step 4 – Right click on “Tomcat” and click on “Start”

If the server starts successfully, you should see a message similar to the following in the console:

Step 5 – Open a browser and type http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCJSPDemo/hello. This will display the following:

You can download the complete source code from the Github repository here.

Further Learning

Spring MasterClass
Spring Tutorial For Beginners
Step by Step Spring MVC Tutorial
Spring Framework in Easy Steps

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