Spring 5 Design Patterns

Processing forms of a web page

As you know, in any web application, we can send and receive data from the server. In a web application, we send the data by filling out forms, and submitting this form to the server. Spring MVC also provides support for form handling of the client end by displaying the form, validating the form data, and submitting this form data.

Basically, Spring MVC handles the form displaying and form processing first. In the Bank management application, you will need to create a new user, and open a new account in the bank, so, let's create a controller class, AccountController, with a single request-handling method for displaying the account open form, as follows:

 package com.packt.patterninspring.chapter10.bankapp.web.controller; ...