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_5

5. Implementing Controllers

Marten Deinum¹   and Iuliana Cosmina²

(1)

MEPPEL, Drenthe, The Netherlands

(2)

EDINBURGH, UK

 

Controllers play a crucial role in a web application: they execute the actual request, prepare the model, and select a view to render. In conjunction with the dispatcher servlet, controllers also play a crucial role in the request processing workflow. The controller is the glue between the core application and the web interface to the application. This chapter looks at the two different controller approaches and covers the out-of-the-box implementations provided with the Spring Framework and as configured ...