Spring Boot: Up and Running

Chapter 7. Creating Applications Using Spring MVC

This chapter demonstrates how to create Spring Boot applications using Spring MVC with REST interactions, messaging platforms, and other communications mechanisms and provides an introduction to templating language support. Although I introduced interservice interactions as part of last chapter’s dive into Spring Boot’s many options for handling data, this chapter shifts the primary focus from the application itself to the outside world: its interactions with other applications and/or services and with end users.

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Spring MVC: What Does It Mean?

Like many other things in technology, the term Spring MVC is somewhat overloaded. When someone refers to Spring MVC, they could mean any of the following:

• Implementing (in some manner) the Model-View-Controller pattern in a Spring application

• Creating an application specifically using Spring MVC component concepts like the Model interface, @Controller classes, and view technologies

• Developing blocking/nonreactive applications using Spring

Depending on context, Spring MVC can be considered both an approach and an implementation. It can also be used within or without Spring Boot. Generic application of the MVC pattern using Spring and Spring MVC use outside of Spring Boot both fall outside the scope of this book. I’ll focus specifically on the final two concepts previously listed using Spring ...