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Spring MVC with JSP allows you to build dynamic web pages where the controller processes requests, adds data to the model and then forwards it to a JSP page to render the final output. It's a clean and organized way to separate logic from presentation.

Step to implement Spring MVC with JSP

Step 1: Create the Project

  • Eclipse IDE: File -> New -> Dynamic Web Project (check "Generate web.xml")
  • IntelliJ: New -> Project > Maven -> Web App archetype

Step 2: Add Maven Dependencies

Add below dependecies in pom.xml file:

Java 
<dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
                <version>4.3.7</version>
            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                <groupId>jstl</groupId>
                <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
                <version>1.2</version>
            </dependency> 
            <dependency>
                <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
                <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.1</version>
                <scope>provided</scope>
            </dependency>

Step 3: Configure web.xml

This file tells the servlet container how to load the Spring DispatcherServlet and which file has Spring configurations.

web.xml

Java 
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
                             http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
         version="3.0">

    <display-name>SampleMVC</display-name>

    <!-- Load Spring Context -->
    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

    <!-- Location of Spring application context -->
    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <!-- Spring DispatcherServlet -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <!-- Servlet Mapping -->
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <!-- Welcome file -->
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> <!-- optional -->
    </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

Step 4: Create Spring Configuration file

This file initializes Spring MVC, scans your Java classes and sets up view resolution (JSP mapping) WebApplicationContext. And this contains the MVC-specific configurations including view-resolvers, datasource, messagesource, multipart-resolver (file-upload), etc.

mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml

Java 
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="...">

  <!-- Scan all Java classes in this package for Spring annotations -->
  <context:component-scan base-package="com.springsamples" />

  <!-- Enable Spring MVC Annotations (@Controller, @GetMapping, etc.) -->
  <mvc:annotation-driven />

  <!-- Allow static content (CSS, JS, images) -->
  <mvc:default-servlet-handler />

  <!-- Configure JSP view resolver -->
  <bean id="viewProvider" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/" />
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
  </bean>
</beans>

Step 5: Create the Controller

Java 
package com.springsamples.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller
public class HomeController {

    @GetMapping("/") public ModelAndView firstView()
    {
        // "greet" will map to greet.jsp
        ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView("greet");
        mav.addObject(
            "greeting",
            "GeeksForGeeks Welcomes you to Spring!");
        return mav;
    }
}

Step 6: Create the JSP View.

Place this file inside: src/main/webapp/greet.jsp

greet.jsp

Java 
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" isELIgnored="false" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "- Transitional
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
 charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Start Spring MVC</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Start here</h1>
${greeting}
</body>
</html>

When you run the project and open the browser at:

http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCApp/

Output:

output38-300x158
Output

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