Spring MVC Tutorial for Beginners

Welcome to our Course on Spring MVC. Go to Step wise details to understand all the concepts you would learn in this course. We have all the code at the end of each step in (Step01.md, Step02.md, Step37.md). Also present are some zip files with code at the end of some steps(Step07.zip to Step37.zip).

The First 7 Steps of this course are available for free on YouTube.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNhGaZDr0Y
The entire course with 37 Steps is available on Udemy
- https://www.udemy.com/spring-mvc-tutorial-for-beginners-step-by-step

Spring MVC Tutorial for Beginners - TOC

Running examples
Course Overview
- Steps 1 to 7 : Build a normal Web Application
- Steps 11 to 37 : Use Spring MVC to Build Your First Web Application
- Step wise details
- Exercises
About in28Minutes

Installing Eclipse and Java

https://github.com/in28minutes/SpringIn28Minutes/blob/master/InstallationGuide-JavaEclipseAndMaven_v2.pdf

Course Overview

You will learn about

DispatcherServlet
Basic Todo Management Application with Login/Logout
Model, Controllers, ViewResolver and Filters
Forms - DataBinding, Validation
Annotation based approach - @RequestParam, @PathVariable, @ModelAttribute, @SessionAttributes etc
Bootstrap to style the page
Spring Security
Internationalization
Exception Handling
Basic REST Services

Steps 1 to 7 - Build a normal Web Application

Understand Basics of HTTP
HttpRequest - GET/POST, Request Parameters
HTTP Response - Response Status - 404,200,500 etc
Introduction to JSP, Servlets, Scriptlets and EL
HTML Form - Method, Action & Form Data
Understand Basics of using Maven, Tomcat and Eclipse
Using Request Attributes for passing Model between Servlet and View

Steps 11 to XX : Use Spring MVC to Build Your First Web Application

Step 11 : Configure application to use Spring MVC
Step 12 : First Spring MVC Controller, @ResponseBody, @Controller
Step 13 : Redirect to Login JSP - LoginController, @ResponseBody and View Resolver
Step 14 : DispatcherServlet and Log4j
Step 15 : Show userid and password on the welcome page - ModelMap and @RequestParam
Step 16 : LoginService and Remove all JEE Servlets based code
Step 17 : Spring Auto-wiring and Dependency Management - @Autowired and @Service
Step 18 : Create TodoController and list-todos.jsp. Make TodoService a @Service and inject it.
Step 19 : Web Application Architecture
Step 20 : More about Spring Framework
Step 21 : Session vs Model vs Request - @SessionAttributes
Step 22 : New Todo and redirect to a Controller
Step 23 : JSTL
Step 24 : Bootstrap - using Webjars
Step 25 : Let's delete a Todo
Step 26 : Use Bootstrap to format and add HTML5 Validations
Step 27 : Introduce JSR 349 Validations using Hibernate Validator - First Command Bean.
Step 28 : Let's update a Todo
Step 29 : Let's add a Target Date for Todo - Use initBinder to Handle Date Fields
Step 30 : Navigation bar and JSP Fragments
Step 31 : Let's prepare for Spring Security
Step 32 : Initial Setup for Spring Security
Step 33 : Refactor and add Logout Functionality using Spring Security
Step 34 : Exception Handling in Spring MVC - @ControllerAdvice, @ExceptionHandler and error-page in web.xml
Step 35 : Let's add Internationalization - i18n
Step 36 : Basic Spring Rest Services - @RestController and jackson-databind
Step 37 : More Rest Services - @PathVariable

Expectations

For taking this course, you should already know Java.
We expect NO prior experience with web development using Java.
We expect NO prior experience with Spring.

Running Examples

If you are downloading the zip file, unzip the file
Open Command Prompt and Change directory to folder containing pom.xml
Run command "mvn tomcat7:run"
For help : user our installation guide - https://github.com/in28minutes/SpringIn28Minutes/blob/master/InstallationGuide-JavaEclipseAndMaven_v2.pdf

Step wise details

Step01.md : Up and running with a web app in Tomcat
Step02.md : First JSP
Step03.md : Adding a GET Parameter name
Step04.md : Adding another Get Parameter Password
Step05.md : Lets add a form
Step06.md : New Form and doPost
Step07.md : Adding Password, validation of userid/password

Exercises

Split TodoController into different Controllers
Use same TodoController for both updates and new todo
Functionality to mark a Todo as complete

Future Things To Do

Unit Tests - WTF - why are they not here in the first set?

About in28Minutes

At in28Minutes, we ask ourselves one question everyday. How do we create more effective trainings?
We use Problem-Solution based Step-By-Step Hands-on Approach With Practical, Real World Application Examples.
Our success on Udemy and Youtube (2 Million Views & 12K Subscribers) speaks volumes about the success of our approach.
While our primary expertise is on Development, Design & Architecture Java & Related Frameworks (Spring, Struts, Hibernate) we are expanding into the front-end world (Bootstrap, JQuery, Angular JS).

Our Beliefs

Best Course are interactive and fun.
Foundations for building high quality applications are best laid down while learning.

Our Approach

Problem Solution based Step by Step Hands-on Learning
Practical, Real World Application Examples.
We use 80-20 Rule. We discuss 20% things used 80% of time in depth. We touch upon other things briefly equipping you with enough knowledge to find out more on your own.
We will be developing a demo application in the course, which could be reused in your projects, saving hours of your effort.
All the code is available on Github, for most steps.

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Videos

Step 10 - 1-Introduction to the Course
Step 10 - 2-Overview of the Course
Step 10 - 3-Setting up Maven,Tomcat and Simple JEE Application
Step 11 - Setting up Spring MVC with 4 mini steps
Step 12 - Your First Spring MVC Controller
Step 13 - 1-Your First Spring MVC View - ViewResolver
Step 13 - 2-Theory Break-Spring MVC Architecture
Step 13 - 3-Play Break-Try Breaking Things
Step 14 - Add Logging Framework Log4j
Step 15 - Redirect to Welcome Page - ModelMap and @RequestParam
Step 16 - Use LoginService to Authenticate
Step 17 - Spring Autowiring and Dependency Injection
Step 18 - Display list of Todo's using TodoService
Step 19 - Java Web Application Architecture : Model 1, Model 2 and MVC
Step 20 - Spring Modules
Step 21 - @SessionAttributes : Session vs Request
Step 22 - Add a new Todo : redirect
Step 23 - JSTL forEach Tag
Step 24 - Bootstrap to Style Our Views
Step 25 - Delete Todo Functionality
Step 26 - HTML5 Validations and Formatting Todo Form
Step 27 - Part 1 : Adding Todo Command Bean
Step 27 - Part 2 : Validation using Hibernate Validator
Step 28 - Update Todo Functionality
Step 29 - Add Target Date Field : initBinder
Step 30 - JSP Fragments and Adding a Navigation Bar
Step 31 - Preparing for Spring Security
Step 32 - Setting up Spring Security
Step 33 - Implement Logout Functionality
Step 34 - Part 1 : Theory Behind Exception Handing
Step 34 - Part 2 : Implementing Exception Handing
Step 35 - Internationalization with Spring MVC
Step 36 - Basics of Spring Rest Web Services
Step 37 - Spring Rest Web Services - @PathParam
Step 38 - Conclusion