Chapter 2. Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store

What we saw in the first chapter was nothing but a glimpse of Spring MVC. Our total focus was just to get a Spring MVC application running. Now it's time for us to deep dive into the Spring MVC architecture.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a clear understanding of:

  • The Dispatcher servlet and request mapping
  • Web application context and configuration
  • Spring MVC request flow and Web MVC
  • A typical Spring web application architecture

Dispatcher servlet

In the first chapter, we provided a little introduction to the Dispatcher servlet and you saw how to configure a Dispatcher servlet using the DispatcherServletInitializer class. You learned that every web request first comes to the ...

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