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Spring MVC Beginner's Guide
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Spring MVC Beginner's Guide

by Amuthan Ganeshan
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 3. Control Your Store with Controllers

In Chapter 2, Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store, we learned the overall architecture of a Spring MVC application. We didn't go into any of the concepts in detail; our total aim was to understand the overall flow. In this chapter, we are going to have an in-depth look at the controllers in Spring MVC as they have an important role.

This chapter will cover the following concepts:

  • Defining a controller
  • URI template patterns
  • Matrix variables
  • Request parameters

Defining a controller

Controllers are presentation layer components that are responsible for responding to user actions. These actions could be entering a particular URL on the browser, clicking on a link, submitting a form on a web ...

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