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Spring MVC

Spring provides support for the MVC architectural pattern through Spring MVC. This Spring project allows for incorporating a vast set of UI frameworks, in order to build forms and related components that will enable users to interact with the application.

Spring MVC is built on top of the servlet API, which is designed to create web applications. There is no way to create a desktop, or any other kind of application, using this. Even though the MVC architectural pattern can be applied to all of them, Spring MVC is only focused on the web.

Spring MVC is formally known as Spring Web MVC.

Despite the large number of View technologies supported by Spring MVC, the one most commonly used tends to be Thymeleaf, because of its smooth ...

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