February 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1023 pages
24h 11m
English
The main entry point for a web request in a Spring MVC application is via the Dispatcher servlet. The Dispatcher servlet acts as a front controller and dispatches the requests to the other controller. The front controller's main duty is to find the appropriate right controller to hand over the request for further processing. The following diagram shows an overview of the request flow in a Spring MVC application:

The Spring MVC request flow
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