8 Implementing web apps with Spring Boot and Spring MVC

This chapter covers

  • Using a template engine to implement dynamic views
  • Sending data from client to server through HTTP requests
  • Using GET and POST HTTP methods for your HTTP requests

In chapter 7, we made progress in understanding how to use Spring to write web apps. We’ve discussed a web app’s components, the dependencies a web app needs, and the Spring MVC architecture. We even wrote a first web app to prove all these components work together.

In this chapter, we’ll take a step further and implement some capabilities you’ll find in any modern web app. We start with implementing pages whose content changes according to how your app processes the data for specific requests. Today we ...

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