Pro Spring MVC with WebFlux: Web Development in Spring Framework 5 and Spring Boot 2

© Marten Deinum and Iuliana Cosmina 2021

M. Deinum, I. CosminaPro Spring MVC with WebFluxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5666-4_3

3. Web Application Architecture

Marten Deinum¹   and Iuliana Cosmina²

(1)

MEPPEL, Drenthe, The Netherlands

(2)

EDINBURGH, UK

 

Before we start our journey into the internals of Spring MVC, we first need to understand the different layers of a web application. And we’ll begin that discussion with a brief introduction of the MVC pattern in general, including what it is and why we should use it. We also cover some of the interfaces and classes provided by the Spring Framework to express the different parts of the MVC pattern.

After reviewing the MVC Pattern, we go through the different layers in a web application and see what ...