Spring MVC Cookbook

Installing Spring, Spring MVC, and a web structure

In this recipe, we will add third-party dependencies to our pom.xml files using inheritance. We will load Spring application contexts and create the first controller of our application. Finally, we will deploy and start the web app in Tomcat.

Getting ready

Now that we have Eclipse ready and Maven configured properly, the fun can begin. We need to specify all the necessary Spring dependencies in our pom.xml files, and we need to set up Spring so that it loads and retrieves its context for every module.

We also need to organize and optionally expose web resources, such as JSPs, JavaScript files, CSS files, and so on. If you've completed this configuration, we should end up with a static welcome page ...