Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

Setting up the development environment

Spring projects are usually created as Java projects based in Maven, Gradle, or Ivy (which are build automation and dependency management tools). You can easily create a Maven-based Spring project using STS or Eclipse with Spring Tools support. You need to make sure your pom.xml (Maven configuration) file contains, at the minimum, a dependency to spring-context:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
    <version>${spring-framework.version}</version>
  </dependency>
  ...
</dependencies>

Of course, you should add further dependencies to modules such as spring-tx, spring-data-jpa, spring-webmvc, and hibernate, depending on your project type and requirements. ...