Spring MVC Workshop

For as long as there has been a Spring Framework, there has been Spring MVC, a web framework built around the principals of Spring. Although it was originally designed around a deep hierarchy of controller classes and focused on HTML-oriented views, Spring MVC has evolved in the past few years to embrace an annotation-oriented model and RESTful web development.

In this workshop, we'll use Spring MVC to build the web front-end of an application. We'll start with the essentials and work our way up to try out the latest Spring MVC features in Spring 3.1. We'll explore the following Spring MVC topics:

  • Spring MVC essentials (request mapping, controllers, and views)
  • Field formatting and validation
  • Spring's JSP tag libraries
  • Handling file uploads
  • Content negotiation and non-HTML views
  • Request and response body conversion
  • Advanced request mapping
  • And much more!

Whether you're a Spring newbie or a long-time Spring veteran, this is your chance to get a hands-on experience with everything Spring MVC can do.


Craig Walls

About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a Principal Engineer, Java Champion, Alexa Champion, and the author of Spring AI in Action, Spring in Action, and Build Talking Apps. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 1 bird and 2 dogs.

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