Creating a Spring MVC using an XML-based approach

It is now time to apply all the previous recipes to create a working Spring MVC setup. Applying Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, our main goal now is to build a working baseline project with an XML-based container running on top of the Servlet container of our Tomcat 9 application server. This recipe will feature MVC components of Spring 5.0 and explain how this MVC works together with the servlet components.

Getting started

Create a new project ch02-web.xml using STS Eclipse 8.3. Configure the Maven and deployment descriptor as per the recipe, Implementing the Spring Container using XML. Once all configuration errors are bug-fixed, perform the following steps to create a Spring MVC backbone.

How to do it...

Let us build a simple web application using the Spring MVC concept:

1. Open web.xml and register the main servlet handler of our Spring MVC application, which is org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.

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