Appendix B. Spring MVC and Thymeleaf Template Engine
In the next section, we’ll revisit Spring MVC and provide an overview to Thymeleaf template engine.
B.1 Revisiting Spring MVC
Spring MVC is one of the important modules of the Spring Framework. The model–view–controller (MVC) is the popular design pattern to build UI-based Web applications. MVC allows you to decouple the application design in terms of model, view, and controller. A model encapsulates business data which is presented by a view. A controller is responsible for addressing the user requests and invoking back-end business services. After business service invocation, the controller prepares the model with the data for the views to render in the UI.
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