In Chapter 1, I presented a quick-and-dirty Hello World style Java MVC web application. With the knowledge of how to use Eclipse as an IDE and Gradle as a build framework, we can now investigate a cleaner approach to a Hello World web application. The functionality will be the same: one page serves as a landing page and asks the users for their name. After they submit it, the controller processes the name and shows a submission response page with a personalized greeting.
Starting the Hello World Project
Open Eclipse and choose any suitable workspace. Since in previous chapters we used
