Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

Implementing Controllers

Before we go into the details of understanding the different aspects of implementing the controllers, let's quickly go over how controllers take part in the MVC workflow. 

The following is the workflow representing the processing of a web request and the response by a controller:

1. The requests are first intercepted by the Dispatcher servlet.

2. The Dispatcher servlet does the initial stage of request processing by resolving locale/themes, performing activities such as taking snapshots of the request attributes, and making framework objects available to handlers and view objects.
3. Once the initial processing is done as mentioned in the preceding step, an appropriate handler is determined and invoked for further processing ...