Spring MVC Essentials

Spring MVC is a powerful and flexible framework for building web applications. Its interface-based API promotes loose coupling, yet it also offers many convenient base classes for common functionality. Whether you use the base classes or roll your own, you will discover numerous strategies and extension points. This flexibility will be greatly appreciated once you are up to speed, but newcomers often wonder where to begin.

This session will introduce the core components in a breadth-first fashion focusing on the essentials. We will then build a simple Spring MVC-based webapp from scratch including implementation, testing, configuration, and deployment. Along the way you will see how to bootstrap a Spring-managed service layer, configure request handlers, render views, provide some validation logic, and even configure data-binding for a file-upload. We will round off the discussion with some best-practice guidelines and a quick “what next?” overview of some of the most important extension points.

About Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher is an engineer at Pivotal and has been a member of the Spring team for over 7 years. Currently he co-leads Spring XD and also manages the group responsible for Spring Integration, Spring Batch, and Spring AMQP. Mark has provided consulting services for dozens of clients and has trained hundreds of developers how to use the Spring Framework and related projects effectively. He speaks regularly at conferences and user groups in America and Europe and is one of the authors of Spring Integration in Action, published by Manning in 2012.

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