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Spring RequestMapping 1. Overview In this article, we’ll focus on one of the main annotations in Spring MVC – @RequestMapping. Simply put, the annotation is used to map web requests to Spring Controller methods. Further reading: Serve Static Resources with Spring How to map and handle static resources with Spring… Continue Reading spring-requestmapping
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Spring MVC Tutorial 1. Overview This is a simple Spring MVC tutorial showing how to set up a Spring MVC project, both with a Java-based configuration as well as with XML configuration. The Maven dependencies for a Spring MVC project are described in detail in the Spring MVC dependencies article.… Continue Reading spring-mvc-tutorial
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Spring @RequestMapping New Shortcut Annotations 1. Overview Spring 4.3. introduced some very cool method-level composed annotations to smooth out the handling @RequestMapping in typical Spring MVC projects. In this article, we will learn how to use them in an efficient way. 2. New Annotations Typically, if we want to implement… Continue Reading spring-new-requestmapping-shortcuts
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Spring’s RequestBody and ResponseBody Annotations 1. Introduction In this quick article, we provide a concise overview of the Spring @RequestBody and @ResponseBody annotations. Further reading: Guide to Spring Handler Mappings The article explains how HandlerMapping implementation resolve URL to a particular Handler. Read more → Quick Guide to Spring Controllers… Continue Reading spring-request-response-body
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Using Spring ResponseEntity to Manipulate the HTTP Response 1. Introduction Using Spring, we usually have many ways to achieve the same goal, including fine-tuning HTTP responses. In this short tutorial, we’ll see how to set the body, status, and headers of an HTTP response using ResponseEntity. Further reading: Getting and… Continue Reading spring-response-entity
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Quick Guide to Spring Controllers 1. Introduction In this article we’ll focus on a core concept in Spring MVC – Controllers. 2. Overview Let’s start by taking a step back and having a look at the concept of the Front Controller in the typical Spring Model View Controller architecture. At… Continue Reading spring-controllers
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Template Engines for Spring 1. Overview The Spring web framework is built around the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern, which makes it easier to separate concerns in an application. This allows for the possibility to use different view technologies, from the well established JSP technology to a variety of template engines. In… Continue Reading spring-template-engines
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Spring MVC and the @ModelAttribute Annotation 1. Overview One of the most important Spring-MVC annotations is the @ModelAttribute annotation. The @ModelAttribute is an annotation that binds a method parameter or method return value to a named model attribute and then exposes it to a web view. In the following example,… Continue Reading spring-mvc-and-the-modelattribute-annotation
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