Spring:

Framework is a piece of software. This resolves the commonly and repeatedly

occurred problems in multiple projects.
Spring framework is an open source Java platform and it was initially written
by Rod Johnson and was first released under the Apache 2.0 license in June
2003.
Spring is more flexible framework when we compared with struts. By using
Struts 1.3 and 2.3 we can develop only web based applications. But by using
spring we can develop web apps as well as Standard alone applications also.
We can use any of the following frameworks to develop the web based
applications.
The y are :
Struts

2.Spring
5.OpenSymphony

3.Jsf

4.Web work

Spring framework is a piece of software which contains the solutions to

commonly repeatedly occurred problems across multiple projects.
The following are the advantages of Frameworks like Struts and spring:-.
Frameworks resolve the problems of identifying the architecture. Every
framework like Struts and Spring is delivered with MVC2 architecture.
If we use Servlets and Jsps we have to develop our own Controllers. If
we use frameworks like Struts and Spring internally they came with
Controllers
Eg:

ActionServelt in Struts
DispatcherServlet in Spring
When we use any framework we no need to use RequestDispatcher
code as well as we no need to hard code the resource path names. By
using these frameworks we can configure them in the configuration
files.
If we use JDBC, Servlets, Jsps to develop the form based applications we
have to write huge amount of code to take care of Server side
validations and displaying errors in the same form.
By using JDBC, Servlets, Jsps we have to provide huge amount of code
to develop the I18n applications. (The programs which displays the
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output based on client regional Languages)

The frameworks like Struts and spring delivered with set of predefined
tag libraries. If we use Servlets and Jsps we have to develop our own
tag library which is difficult.

When We use the frameworks like Struts and spring we can use
pdf/velocity/jsf as view components.

Most of the experienced guys are develops the new frameworks.

Every Company uses their own frameworks to develop the projects .all these
frameworks internally uses the other frameworks.
Benefits of Using Spring Framework:
Following is the list of few of the great benefits of using Spring Framework:
Spring enables developers to develop enterprise-class applications
using POJOs. The benefit of using only POJOs is that you do not need an
EJB container product such as an application server but you have the
option of using only a robust servlet container such as Tomcat or some
commercial product.
Spring is organized in a modular fashion. Even though the number of
packages and classes are substantial, you have to worry only about
ones you need and ignore the rest.
Spring does not reinvent the wheel instead, it truly makes use of some
of the existing technologies like several ORM frameworks, logging
frameworks, JEE, Quartz and JDK timers, other view technologies.
Testing an application written with Spring is simple because
environment-dependent code is moved into this framework.
Furthermore, by using JavaBean-style POJOs, it becomes easier to use
dependency injection for injecting test data.
Spring's web framework is a well-designed web MVC framework, which
provides a great alternative to web frameworks such as Struts or other
over engineered or less popular web frameworks.
Spring provides a convenient API to translate technology-specific
exceptions (thrown by JDBC, Hibernate, or JDO, for example) into
consistent, unchecked exceptions.
Lightweight IoC containers tend to be lightweight, especially when
compared to EJB containers, for example. This is beneficial for
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developing and deploying applications on computers with limited

memory and CPU resources.
Spring provides a consistent transaction management interface that
can scale down to a local transaction (using a single database, for
example) and scale up to global transactions (using JTA, for example).

The main feature of spring is IOC.

What is IOC?
IOC stands for Inversion of Control. A person x acts as supposed to do a work
instead of that person perform that tasks some other person y completed
the task and the result is enjoyed by X person. We will call this as Inversion
of Control.
Spring supports AOP. AOP stands for Aspect Oriented Programming.
The advantages of Aop are all the common code is place in aspect before the
business logic method is executed spring call the Aspect. The aspect internally
called the business logic method.
As per spring they have provided the transaction Manager aspect. He will take
care about the transaction managing in Spring.
Spring framework follows mVc2 architecture and it is an open source.
Spring frame work is divided into couple of modules. The advantage of this
approach is we can include only required modules in our project.
The module is a collection classes and interfaces and enumerations.
Spring framework is divided into six modules :
They are:
1.Core

2.DAO

3.ORM

4.AOP

5.JEE

Sometime in the project we will use only core ,orm, aop only..
The following is the architecture of spring 2.0

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spring 2.0 modules

The following is the diagram of spring 3.0 modules:

Core module:
As part of core module we have IOC.
The Core Container consists of the Core, Beans, Context, and Expression
Language modules whose detail is as follows:
The Core module provides the fundamental parts of the framework,
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including the IoC and Dependency Injection features.

The Bean module provides BeanFactory which is a sophisticated
implementation of the factory pattern.
The Context module builds on the solid base provided by the Core and
Beans modules and it is a medium to access any objects defined and
configured. The ApplicationContext interface is the focal point of the
Context module.
The Expression Language module provides a powerful expression
language for querying and manipulating an object graph at runtime.
Data Access/Integration:
The Data Access/Integration layer consists of the JDBC, ORM, OXM, JMS and
Transaction modules whose detail is as follows:
The DAO module: When we use DAO module we can reduce a lot of
code in project. DAO module resolves the all problems of database
specific errors.
The JDBC module provides a JDBC-abstraction layer that removes the
need to do tedious JDBC related coding.
The ORM module provides integration layers for popular objectrelational mapping APIs, including JPA, JDO, Hibernate, and iBatis.
The advantage of spring orm is if we knowledge in one orm we can
work any other orm module easily
The OXM module provides an abstraction layer that supports
Object/XML mapping implementations for JAXB, Castor, XMLBeans,
JiBX and XStream.
The Java Messaging Service JMS module contains features for
producing and consuming messages.
The Transaction module supports programmatic and declarative
transaction management for classes that implement special interfaces
and for all your POJOs.
Web:
The Web layer consists of the Web, Web-Servlet, Web-Struts, and WebPortlet modules whose detail is as follows:
The Web module provides basic web-oriented integration features such
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as multipart file-upload functionality and the initialization of the IoC

container using servlet listeners and a web-oriented application
context.
The Web-Servlet module contains Spring's model-view-controller
(MVC) implementation for web applications.
The Web-Struts module contains the support classes for integrating a
classic Struts web tier within a Spring application.
The Web-Portlet module provides the MVC implementation to be used
in a portlet environment and mirrors the functionality of Web-Servlet
module.
Miscellaneous:
There are few other important modules like AOP, Aspects, Instrumentation,
Web and Test modules whose detail is as follows:
AOP:
AOP stands for Aspect oriented program. this resolves the problem of
Oops.(inheritance between the multiple classes)
The open source group people come with Programming model called
AOP. The software AspectJ followed the Aop and developed the Aop
module. Spring guys has developed some classes which follows the aop
module.
The AOP module provides aspect-oriented programming
implementation allowing you to define method-interceptors and
pointcuts to cleanly decouple code that implements functionality that
should be separated.
The Aspects module provides integration with AspectJ which is again a
powerful and mature aspect oriented programming (AOP) framework.
The Instrumentation module provides class instrumentation support
and class loader implementations to be used in certain application
servers.
The Test module supports the testing of Spring components with JUnit
or TestNG frameworks.

JEE module in spring2.0:

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JEE stands for java environment enterprise.

As part of jee module spring guys has supported EJB and MailAPI.
DepencyLookup:
If the resource of the application searches and gathers its dependent values
from other resources of the application is called as dependency lookup. In
dependency lookup resources pulls the values from other resources.
If values are assigned to variables only after calling the method explicitly is
called as dependency lookup. The way the client app gathers DataSource
object reference from registry software is called dependency lookup.

Dependency injection:
If underlying container or framework or server or runtime environment is
dynamically assigning dependent values to resources of the application then
its called Dependency injection or IOC.
In Dependency injection underlying container/framework dynamically pushes
the values to resources..
Eg: The way ActionServelt writes the form data to FormBean class object
comes under Dependency injection.
Spring supports three types of Dependency injections:
Setter Injection (By using setXxx(xxx) methods)
Constructor injection (by using constructors)
Interface Injection (by implementing special interfaces)

Any predefined or userdefined java class can be called as Spring bean.

The java class that contains only Persistence logic and separate that logic
from other logics of application is called as DAO.
Spring supports POJO class . POJO class is nothing but a class which is not
extending or any other class or interface.
Procedure to set up the first Spring application:
Steps:
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 Create a work space for spring application .

Create the java project .
Add the spring libraries to project by selecting add spring capabilities in
MyEclipse. And add user library in the eclipse ide following way:
Project--properties----------JavaBuildpath---------Add library----UserLibrary--------new --- give name for lib (spring)-------Add jars-Then add all spring jar files.

For developing Spring app u have to create the following classes:

Spring bean class
Spring bean configuration class
Client application to get the bean class object

Developing Spring bean class:

We have created the Address class with three properties
Public class Address {
String street;
String city;
String state;
//setter and getter for the above class like follow
Public void setStreet(String street){
this.street = street;
}
public String getStreet(){
return street;
}

we have created Address class object as follow as

Address objAddress = new Address();
we called a method objAddress.setStreet(srnagar) when this setter is called
we have created a String object and given supplied input to that method. And
it supply the value for instance variable.

objAddress.setStreet(srnagar);
objAddress.setStreet(hyd);
objAddress.setStreet(ap);

From above diagram we have observed that objAddress is depedent on

String objects. The meaning this is Address object is using the String object.
when the setStreet() is executed it stabilize the dependency between String
and Address object. As the Setter() method is stabilizes the dependency
between two objects we are calling this as Setter injection.
Instead of creating an object and stabilize the dependency, Spring container
will take care of creating object and stabilize the dependency or injecting the
dependencies We will call this as Inversion of Control or dependency injection.
According to Spring documentation Ioc is called as Dependency injection.
In Spring we will develop the pojo or spring bean class . If spring Container
want to take care of Ioc then we have to configure that in Spring
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configuration file.(ApplicationContext.xml)
The following is example of spring bean configuration file:
<beans>
<bean id= class= lazy-init=>
<property > </property >
</bean>
<beans>
Procedure to configure spring bean in Spring configuration file in MyEclipse:

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Spring MVC Framework

Spring MVC helps in building flexible and loosely coupled web
applications. The Model-view-controller design pattern helps in
seperating the business logic, presentation logic and navigation logic.
Models are responsible for encapsulating the application data. The
Views render response to the user with the help of the model object .
Controllers are responsible for receiving the request from the user and
calling the back-end services.
The figure below shows the flow of request in the Spring MVC
Framework.

When a request is sent to the Spring MVC Framework the following

sequence of events happen.
The DispatcherServlet first receives the request.
The DispatcherServlet consults the HandlerMapping and invokes
the Controller associated with the request.
The Controller process the request by calling the appropriate service
methods and returns aModeAndView object to the DispatcherServlet.
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The ModeAndView object contains the model data and the view
name.
The DispatcherServlet sends the view name to a ViewResolver to find
the actual View to invoke.
Now the DispatcherServlet will pass the model object to the View to
render the result.
The View with the help of the model data will render the result back
to the user.
To understand the Spring MVC Framework we will now create a simple
hello world example using the Eclipse IDE. I am using Exclipse IDE 3.4 ,
Spring IDE plugin, Tomcat 6.0 and Spring 3.0 to demonstrate this
example.
Go to File -> New -> Dynamic Web Project, to create a web project.

Enter the project name and click the Finish button.

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Right click the project folder, and select Spring Tools -> Add Spring
Project Nature, to add Spring capabilities to the web project. This
feature will be available once you install the Spring IDE.

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Create a new package com.vaannila inside the src directory. The Spring
controller class extends
org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController class. To create
a new controller class right click the src directory and create a new java
class, enter the controller class name and super class name and
the Finish button.

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Copy the following code inside the HelloWorldController class.

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01.import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
02.import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
03.
04.import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
05.import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController;

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06.
07.public class HelloWorldController extends AbstractController {
08.
09.private String message;
10.
11.@Override
12.protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest
request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
13.return new ModelAndView("welcomePage","welcomeMessage",
message);
14.}
15.
16.public void setMessage(String message) {
17.this.message = message;
18.}
19.
20.}

The DispatcherSevlet, as the name indicates, is a single servlet that

manages the entire request-handling process. When a request is sent to
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the DispatcherServlet it delegates the job by invoking the appropriate

controllers to process the request. Like any other servlet
the DispatcherServlet need to be configured in the web deployment
descriptor as shown.
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01.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
02.<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchemainstance"xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"xmlns:web="http:/
/java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_
5.xsd"xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaeehttp://jav
a.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_
5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID"version="2.5">
03.<servlet>
04.<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
05.<servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
06.<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
07.</servlet>
08.<servlet-mapping>
09.<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
10.<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
11.</servlet-mapping>
12.<welcome-file-list>
13.<welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
14.</welcome-file-list>

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15.</web-app>
Here the servlet name is dispatcher. By default the DispatcherServlet will
look for a file name dispatcher-servlet.xml to load the Spring MVC
configuration. This file name is formed by concatenating the servlet
name ("dispatcher") with "-servlet.xml". Here we user the the urlpattern as ".htm" inorder to hide the implementations technology to the
users.
The redirect.jsp will be invoked first when we execute the Spring web
application. This is the only jspfile outside the WEB-INF directory and it is
here to provide a redirect to the DispatcherServlet. All the other views
should be stored under the WEB-INF directory so that they can be
invoked only through the controller process.
To create a bean configuration file right click the WebContent folder and
select New -> Other. The following dialog box appears.

Select the Spring Bean Configuration file and click Next.

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Enter the file name as "dispatcher-servlet.xml" and click

the Finish button.
Now the Spring bean configuration file is created, we need to configure
the Controller and theViewResolver classes. The following code shows
how to do this.
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01.<bean id="viewResolver"
02.class=" org.springframework.web.servlet.view.
InternalResourceViewResolver" >
03.<property name="prefix">
04.<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>

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05.</property>
06.<property name="suffix">
07.<value>.jsp</value>
08.</property>
09.</bean>
10.
11.<bean
name="/welcome.htm" class="com.vaannila.HelloWorldController" >
12.<property name="message" value="Hello World!" />
13.</bean>
14.
15.</beans>
First let's understand how to configure the controller.
1.<bean
name="/welcome.htm" class="com.vaannila.HelloWorldController" >
2.<property name="message" value="Hello World!" />
3.</bean>
Here the name attribute of the bean element indicates the URL pattern
to map the request. Since the id attribute can't contain special
characters like "/" , we specify the URL pattern using the name attribute
of the bean element. By default the DispatcherServlet uses
the BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping to map the incoming request.
The BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping uses the bean name as the URL
pattern. Since BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping is used by default, you
need not do any seperate configuration for this.
We set the message attribute of the HelloWorldController class thru
setter injection. TheHelloWorldController class is configured just like an
another JavaBean class in the Spring application context, so like any
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other JavaBean we can set values to it through Dependency Injection

(DI).
The redirect.jsp will redirect the request to the DispatcherServlet, which
inturn consults with theBeanNameUrlHandlerMapping and invokes
the HelloWorldController. The handleRequestInternal()method in the
HelloWorldController class will be invoked. Here we return
the message property under the name welcomeMessage and the view
name welcomePage to the DispatcherServlet. As of now we only know
the view name, and to find the actual view to invoke we need
a ViewResolver.
The ViewResolver is configured using the following code.
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01.<bean id="viewResolver"
02.class="
org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
03.<property name="prefix">
04.<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>
05.</property>
06.<property name="suffix">
07.<value>.jsp</value>
08.</property>
09.</bean>
Here the InternalResourceViewResolver is used to resolve the view name
to the actual view. The prefix value + view name + suffix value will give
the actual view location. Here the actual view location is /WEBINF/jsp/welcomePage.jsp
The following library files are needed to run the example.
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print?
01.antlr-runtime-3.0
02.commons-logging-1.0.4
03.org.springframework.asm-3.0.0.M3
04.org.springframework.beans-3.0.0.M3
05.org.springframework.context-3.0.0.M3
06.org.springframework.context.support-3.0.0.M3
07.org.springframework.core-3.0.0.M3
08.org.springframework.expression-3.0.0.M3
09.org.springframework.web-3.0.0.M3
10.org.springframework.web.servlet-3.0.0.M3

To execute the example run the redirect.jsp file. The following page will
be displayed.

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1) Introduction
The Spring MVC provides rich functionality for building robust Web Applications and it
is available as a separate module in the Distribution. As a pre-requisite, readers are
advised to go through the introductory article on Spring Framework Introduction to
Spring Framework. TheSpring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a
way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also Spring can
integrate effortlessly with other popular Web Frameworks like Struts, WebWork, Java
Server Faces and Tapestry. It means that you can even instruct Spring to use any one
of the Web Frameworks. More than that Spring is not tightly coupled with Servlets or Jsp
to render the View to the Clients. Integration with other View technologies
like Velocity, Freemarker, Excel or Pdf is also possible now. This article provides an
introduction over the various components that are available in the Spring MVC for the
Web Tier. Specifically the major Core Components like Dispatcher Servlet, Handler
Mappings,Controller, Model, View and View Resolver along with the appropriate Api
are discussed briefly. Finally the article will conclude by presenting a Sample
Application.

also read:
Spring Interview Questions

Spring Framework Books (recommended)

JSF Interview Questions

Introduction to Spring MVC

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2) The Spring Workflow

Before taking a look over the various Components that are involved in the Spring MVC
Framework, let us have a look on the style of Spring Web Flow.

The Client requests for a Resource in the Web Application.

The Spring Front Controller, which is implemented as a Servlet, will intercept the
Request and then will try to find out the appropriate Handler Mappings.

The Handle Mappings is used to map a request from the Client to its Controller object
by browsing over the various Controllers defined in the Configuration file.

With the help of Handler Adapters, the Dispatcher Servlet will dispatch the Request to
the Controller.

The Controller processes the Client Request and returns the Model and the View in the
form of ModelAndView object back to the Front Controller.

The Front Controller then tries to resolve the actual View (which may be Jsp, Velocity
or Free marker) by consulting the View Resolver object.

Then the selected View is rendered back to the Client.

Let us look into the various Core Components that make up the Spring Web Tier.
Following are the components covered in the next subsequent sections.

3) Dispatcher Servlet
The Dispatcher Servlet as represented by
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet, follows the Front Controller
Design Pattern for handling Client Requests. It means that whatever Url comes from the
Client, this Servlet will intercept the Client Request before passing the Request Object to
the Controller. The Web Configuration file should be given definition in such a way that
this Dispatcher Servlet should be invoked for Client Requests.
Following is the definition given in the web.xml to invoke Springs Dispatcher Servlet.
web.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.4">

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<servlet>

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<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>

org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

</servlet-class>

<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>

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</servlet>

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<servlet-mapping>

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<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>

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<url-pattern>*.*</url-pattern>

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</servlet-mapping>

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</web-app>

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Look into the definition of servlet-mapping tag. It tells that whatever be the Client
Request (represented by *.* meaning any Url with any extension), invoke the Servlet by
name'dispatcher'. In our case, the dispatcher servlet is nothing but an instance of
type'org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet'.
Closing associated term with the Dispatcher Servlet is the Application Context.
An Application Context usually represents a set of Configuration Files that are used
to provide Configuration Information to the Application. The Application Context is a Xml
file that contain various Bean Definitions. By default the Dispatcher Servlet will try to
look for a file by name <servlet-name>-servlet.xml in the WEB-INF directory. So,
in our case the Servlet will look for a file name called dispatcher-servlet.xml file
in the WEB-INF directory.
It is wise sometimes to split all the Configuration information across multiple
Configuration Files. In such a case we have to depend on a Listener

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Servlet called Context Loader represented

by org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.

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<web-app>

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3

<listener>

<listener-class>

org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>

</listener>

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</web-app>

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By default, this Context Listener will try to look for the Configuration File by name
'applicationContext.xml' in the '/WEB-INF' directory. But with the help of the
parameter'contextConfigLocation' the default location can be overridden. Even
multiple Configuration Files each containing separate piece of Information is also
possible.
web.xml

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2

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.4">

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<listener>

<listener-class>

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org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>

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<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>

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<param-value>/WEB-INF/contacts.xml, /WEB-INF/resources.xml</param-value>

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</context-param>

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</web-app>

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The above definition instructs the Framework to look and load for the Configuration Files
by name 'contacts.xml' and 'resources.xml' in the WEB-INF directory.

4) Handler Mappings
When the Client Request reaches the Dispatcher Servlet, the Dispatcher Servlet tries
to find the appropriate Handler Mapping Object to map between the Request and the
Handling Object. A Handler Mapping provides an abstract way that tell how the Clients
Url has to be mapped to the Handlers. Four concrete variation of Handler Mapping are
available. They are defined as follows

BeanNameUrl HandlerMapping

CommonsPathMap HandlerMapping

ControllerClassName HandlerMapping

SimpleUrl HandlerMapping
All the above Handler Mapping objects are represented
as BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping,CommonsPathMapHandlerMapping, Controll
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the org.springframework.web.servlet package respectively. Let us see the

functionalities and the differences in usage one by one.
4.1) BeanNameUrl HandlerMapping
This is the simplest of the Handler Mapping and it is used to map the Url that comes
from the Clients directly to the Bean Object. In the later section, we will see that the Bean
is nothing but a Controller object. For example, consider that the following are the valid
Url in a Web Application that a Client Application can request for.

http://myserver.com/eMail/showAllMails

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http://myserver.com/eMail/composeMail

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http://myserver.com/eMail/deleteMail

Note that the Url (excluding the Application Context) in the above cases
are 'showAllMails','composeMail' and 'deleteMail'. This means that the
Framework will look for Bean Definitions with Identifiers showAllMails, composeMail
and deleteMail. Consider the following Xml code snippet in the Configuration file,

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<beans>

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<bean name="/showAllMails.jsp"

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class="com.javabeat.net.ShowAllMailsController">

</bean>

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<bean name="/composeMail.jsp"

class="com.javabeat.net.ComposeMailController">

</bean>

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<bean name="/ deleteMail.jsp"

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class="com.javabeat.net.DeleteMailController">

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</bean>

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</beans>

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So, in BeanNameUrl Handler Mapping, the Url of the Client is directly mapped to the
Controller. To enable this kind of Handler Mapping in the Application, the Configuration
file should have a similar kind of definition like the following,

<beans>

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<bean id="beanNameUrl"

class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping"/>

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</beans>

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4.2) CommonsPathMap HandlerMapping
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Controller has to be mapped is specified directly in the Source file of the Controller.
Considering the previous example, if we want to map showAllMails, composeMail and
deleteMail to Controllers
namely ShowAllMailsController, ComposeMailController and DeleteMailC
ontroller, then the mapping information must be specified in the form of meta-data in
the source filesinside the Javadoc comments. Consider the following Controller
Definitions,

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2

/**

*@@ org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.commonsattributes.

*PathMap("/showAllMails.jsp")

*/
public class ShowAllMailsController{

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}

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/**

*@@ org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.commonsattributes.

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*PathMap("/composeMail.jsp")

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*/

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public class ComposeMailController{

}

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/**

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*PathMap("/deleteMail.jsp")

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public class DeleteMailController {

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The attribute must point
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ap. By defining Controllers in this way, one more additional compilation step is needed.
That is to make the availability of this attribute in the Class files, this Java Source has to
be compiled with theCommons Attribute Compiler which comes along with the Spring
Distribution. As before, to enable this kind of mapping , the Configuration File should
have an entry similar to this,

<beans>

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<bean id="metaHandlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.

metadata.CommonsPathMapHandlerMapping"/>

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</beans>

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4.3) ControllerClassName HandlerMapping
In this kind of Handler Mapping, the name of the Controller is taking directly from the Url
itself with slight modifications. For example, let us assume that the Client request ends
with Url as shown below,

http://myserver.com/emailApp/showInbox.jsp

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http://myserver.com/emailApp/showDeletedItems.jsp

And as such, we have a Controller definition by name ShowController as follows,

ShowController.java

public class ShowController{

Also the Configuration file is made to activate this kind of Handler Mapping by making
the following definition,

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<beans>

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<bean id="controllerClassName" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler

metadata.ControllerClassNameHandlerMapping"/>

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</beans>

The first thing the Framework does it, it will traverse through the List of Controllers
defined in the Configuration File and perform these actions. For the Controller
ShowController, then Framework will remove the Controller String and then lowercase
the first letter. In our case the string now becomes show. Now whatever Client Request
matches the pattern /show*, then theShowController will be invoked.
4.4) SimpleUrl HandlerMapping
This is the Simplest of all the Handler Mappings as it directly maps the Client Request to
some Controller object. Consider the following Configuration File,

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<bean id="simpleUrlMapping"

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class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">

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<property name="mappings">

<props>

<prop key="/showAllMails.jsp">showController</prop>

<prop key="/composeMail.jsp">composeController</prop>

<prop key="/deleteMail.jsp">deleteController</prop>
</props>

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</property>

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</bean>

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The set of mappings is encapsulated in the 'property' tag with each defined in
a 'prop'element with the 'key' attribute being the Url, the value being the Identifier of
the Controller Objects. Note that the Beans for the above Identifiers should be defined

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somewhere in the Configuration File.

5) Handler Adapters
It is important to understand that the Spring Framework is so flexible enough to define
what Components should be delegated the Request once the Dispatcher Servlet finds
the appropriate Handler Mapping. This is achieved in the form of Handler Adapters. If
you remember in the Spring Work flow section, that it is mentioned once the Dispatcher
Servlet chooses the appropriate Handler Mapping, the Request is then forwarded to the
Controller object that is defined in the Configuration File. This is the default case. And
this so happens because the Default Handler Adapter is Simple Controller Handler
Adapter (represented
byorg.springframework.web.servlet.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter),
which will do the job of the Forwarding the Request from the Dispatcher to the Controller
object.
Other types of Handler Adapters are Throwaway Controller HandlerAdapter
(org.springframework.web.servlet.ThrowawayControllerHandlerAdapte
r) andSimpleServlet HandlerAdapter
(org.springframework.web.servlet.SimpleServletHandlerAdapter).
The Throwaway Controller HandlerAdapter, for example, carries the Request from the
Dispatcher Servlet to the Throwaway Controller (discussed later in the section on
Controllers) and Simple Servlet Handler Adapter will carry forward the Request from the
Dispatcher Servlet to a Servlet thereby making the Servlet.service() method to be
invoked.
If, for example, you dont want the default Simple Controller Handler Adapter, then you
have to redefine the Configuration file with the similar kind of information as shown
below,

<bean id="throwawayHandler" class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.throwaway

ThrowawayControllerHandlerAdapter"/>

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or

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<bean id="throwawayHandler" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.throwaway.

SimpleServletHandlerAdapter"/>

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Even, it is possible to write a Custom Handler Adapter by implementing

the HandlerAdapterinterface available in
the org.springframework.web.servlet package.

6) Controller
Controllers are components that are being called by the Dispatcher Servlet for doing any
kind of Business Logic. Spring Distribution already comes with a variety of Controller
Componentseach doing a specific purpose. All Controller Components in Spring
implement theorg.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.Controller interface.
This section aimed to provide the commonly used Controllers in the Spring Framework.
The following are the Controller Components available in the Spring Distribution.

SimpleFormController

AbstractController

AbstractCommandController

CancellableFormController

AbstractCommandController

MultiActionController

ParameterizableViewController

ServletForwardingController

ServletWrappingController

UrlFilenameViewController
The following section covers only
on AbstractController, AbstractCommandController,SimpleFormControll
er and CancellableFormController in detail.
6.1) Abstract Controller
If one wants to implement Custom Controller Component right from the scratch, then
instead of implementing the Controller interface, extending AbstractController can
be preferred as it provides the basic support for the GET and the POST methods. It is
advised that only for simple purpose, this type of extensions should be used. The
purpose may be as simple as returning a resource to the Client upon request without
having the need to examine the Request Parameters or other Stuffs. For example,
consider the following piece of code,
MySimpleController.java

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public class MySimpleController extends AbstractController{

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public void handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request,

HttpServletResponse response){

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return new ModelAndView("myView");

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}

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}

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Note that the Dispatcher Servlet will call the handleRequest() method by passing the
Request and the Response parameters. The implementation just returns
a ModelAndView (discussed later) object with myView being the logical view name.
There are Components called View Resolvers whose job is to provide a mapping
between the Logical View Name and the actualPhysical Location of the View
Resource. For the time being, assume that somehow, myView is mapped
to myView.jsp. So, whenever the Dispatcher Servlet invokes this MySimpleController
object, finally myView.jsp will be rendered back to the Client.
6.2) Abstract Command Controller
The concept of Command Controller comes into picture when the Business Logic
depends upon the values that are submitted by the User. Instead of depending on the
Servlet Api to get the Request Parameter Values and other session Objects, we can
depend on this Abstract Command Controller to take those pieces of Information. For
example consider the following code snippet which has a simple business logic telling
that, depending on the existence of username, display the
form success.jsp or failure.jsp
MySimpleController.java

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public class MySimpleController extends AbstractCommandController{

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public MySimpleController(){

setCommandClass(UserInfo.class);

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}

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public void handle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,

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Object command){

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UserInfo userInfo = (UserInfo)command;

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if ( exists(userInfo.getUserName){

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return new ModelAndView("success");

}else{

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return new ModelAndView("failure");

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}

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}

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private boolean exits(String username){

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// Some logic here.

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}
}

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Note that the Client Parameters (username , in this case) is encapsulated in a simple
Class called UserInfo which is given below. The value given by the Client for the
username field will be directly mapped to the property called username in the UserInfo.
In the Constructor of theMySimpleController class, we have mentioned the name of
the Command Class which is going to hold the Client Request Parameters by calling
the setCommandClass() method. Also note that in the case of Command Controller,
the method that will be called by the Dispatcher Servlet will be handle() which is
passed with the Command object apart from the Request and the Response objects.

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UserInfo.java

public class UserInfo{

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private String username;

// Getters and Setters here.

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6.3) Simple Form Controller

Asking the User to fill in a Form containing various information and submitting the form
normally happens in almost every Web Application. The Simple Form Controller is
exactly used for that purpose. Let us give a simple example to illustrate this. Assume that
upon Client Request a page called empInfo.jsp is rendered to the client
containing empName, empAge and empSalaryfields. Upon successful completion a Jsp
Page called empSuccess.jsp is displayed back to the Client. Now let us see how we
can make use of the Simple Form Controller to achieve this kind functionality.
The very first thing is that, to collect the Client Input Values, a Command object which
contains getter and setters must be defined. Following the skeleton of the class
called EmpInfo.
EmpInfo.java

public class EmpInfo{

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3

private String empName;

private int empAge;

private double empSalary;

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// Getters and setters for the above properties.

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}

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The next thing is to write a class that extends SimpleFormController. But this time,
thedoSubmitAction() method should be overridden. This is the method that will be
called when the Client submits the form. Following is the definition of the Controller

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class.
EmpFormController.java

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public class EmpFormController extends SimpleFormController{

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public EmpFormController(){

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setCommandClass(EmpInfo.class);

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public void doSubmitAction(Object command){

EmpInfo info = (EmpInfo)command;

process(info);
}

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private void process(EmpInfo info){

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//Do some processing with this object.

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}

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As we mentioned previously, the form that collects information from the Client
is empInfo.jspand upon successful submission the view empSuccess.jsp should be
displayed. This information is externalized from the Controller class and it is maintained
in the Configuration File like the following,

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<bean id = "empForm" class="EmpFormController">

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3

<property name="formView">

<value>empInfo</value>

</property>

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<property name="successView">

<value>empSuccess</value>
</property>

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</bean>

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Note the two property names 'formView' and 'successView' along with the
values'empInfo' and 'empSuccess'. These properties represent the initial View to
be displayed and the final view (after successful Form submission) to be rendered to the
Client.
6.4) Cancellable FormController
If you carefully notice with the implementation of Simple Form Controller, there are ways
to provide the Initial and the Successful View to the Clients. But what happens when the
Form is cancelled by the User? Who will process the Cancel operation of the Form?
The above issues can be given immediate solution with the usage of Cancellable
FormController. The good thing is that Cancellable FormController
extends SimpleForm Controller so that all the functionalities are visible to this
Controller also. Suppose say that the User clicks the cancel button, the Framework will
check in the Request parameter for a key with name 'cancelParamKey'. If it is so,
then it will call the onCancel() method. Consider the following definition,
MyCompleteFormController.java

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public class MyCompleteFormController extends CancellableFormController{

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public ModelAndView onCancel(){

return new ModelAndView("cancelView");

}

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7) Model And View

Model and View (represented by the
classorg.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView) is returned by the
Controller object back to the Dispatcher Servlet. This class is just a Container class for
holding the Model and the View information. The Mode object represents some piece of
information that can be used by the View to display the information. Both these Objects
are given high degree of abstraction in the Spring Framework.
Any kind of View Technology (org.springframework.web.servlet.View) can be
plugged into the Framework with ease. For example, Excel, Jasper Reports, Pdf, Xslt,
Free Marker, Html, Tiles, Velocity etc. are the supported Frameworks as of now. The
Model object (represented byorg.springframework.ui.ModelMap) is internally
maintained as a Map for storing the Information.
Following are the ways to Construct the Model and the View object.

View pdfView = ;

Map modelData = new HashMap();

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ModelAndView mv1 = new ModelAndView(pdfView, modelData);

The above constructs a ModelAndView object by passing the actual View object along
with the Model object. Now consider the following code,

ModelAndView mv1 = new ModelAndView("myView", someData);

Note, in the above example, a string with myView is passed for the View. This way of
specifying a View is called a Logical View. It means that myView either can point to
something called myView.jsp or myView.pdf or myView.xml. The Physical View
Location corresponding to theLogical View can be made configurable in the
Configuration File.

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8) View Resolver
In the previous section, we talked about Logical View and the Physical View
Location for the Logical View. The mapping between the Logical name and the Physical
View Location is taken care by the View Resolver object. Without any surprise, Spring
comes with a set of Built-In Spring Resolvers. It is even possible to write Custom View
Resolvers by implementing
theorg.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver interface. Following are
the available View Resolvers in the Spring Distribution.

BeanNameViewResolver

FreeMarkerViewResolver

InternalResourceViewResolver

JasperReportsViewResolver

ResourceBundleViewResolver

UrlBasedViewResolver

VelocityLayoutViewResolver

VelocityViewResolver

XmlViewResolver

XsltViewResolver
The following section concentrates only on Internal Resource View Resolver and Bean
Name View Resolver in detail.
8.1) Internal Resource View Resolver
The Internal Resource View Resolver will try to map the Logical name of the Resource
as returned by the Controller object in the form of ModelAndView object to the Physical
View location. For example, consider the following class definition which returns
different ModelAndView objects.
MyController.java

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public class MyController {

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public void handle(){

if(condition1()){

return new ModelAndView("myView1");

}else if (condition2()){
return new ModelAndView("myView2");

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}

return new ModelAndView("myView3");

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}

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}

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Assume that if the Client Request satisfies condition1(), then the view myView.jsp
which is present in the /WEB-INF folder should be displayed and for the client Requests
satisfyingcondition2() and the other one, myView2.jsp and myView3.jsp should
be displayed.
For this to happen, the following entry must be made in the Configuration File,

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2

<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.

InternalResourceViewResolver">

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4

<property name="prefix"><value>/WEB-INF/</value></property>

<property name="suffix"><value>.jsp</value></property>

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7

</bean>

This is how the Internal Resource View Resolver will map the Logical View Name to
the physical Location. When the logical View name is myView1, then it will construct a
view name which is the summation of the prefix + the logical View Name + the suffix,
which is going to be /WEB-INF/myView.jsp. The same is the case
for myView2.jsp and myView3.jsp.
8.2) Bean Name View Resolver

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One of the dis-advantage of using Internal Resource View Resolver is that the name of
the View file (whether it is a Jsp File or the Pdf File) must be present in the Web
Application Context. Dynamically generated View files may not be possible. In such a
case, we may use the Bean Name View Resolver which will dynamically generate View
in Pdf or Excel Formats.
For the example, if the ModelAndView object represents a View by name pdf as
shown in the following snippet,

return ModelAndView("pdf")

And, if we want to generate the Pdf file, then we should have defined the Configuration
information in the file as follows,

<bean id="beanNameResolver"

class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver"/>

The above code configures the Framework to use BeanNameViewResolver. Since the
logical name pdf must resolve to a Bean Name, we should define a similar entry like the
following in the Configuration File. Note that, in the following MyPdfGenerator may be
the sub-class
oforg.springframework.web.servlet.view.document.AbstractPdfView for
generating the Pdf File.

<bean id = " pdf " class = "MyPdfGenerator"/>

9) Sample Application
9.1) Introduction
The final Section of this article details a Simple Contact Application that has provisions
for Creating, Deleting and Listing Contact Objects. The aim of this Application is to show
the various use of Controller Components like Abstract Controller, Abstract Command
Controller and Form Controller along with Configuration Information.
9.2) The Web Descriptor File
As mentioned previously, since the Dispatcher Servlet acts as an Interceptor for the
Client Request, an entry for the same has to be mentioned in the web.xml file. Follow is
the code snippet for the same,
web.xml

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web.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee

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http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

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<servlet>

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<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>

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<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

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</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>

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</servlet>

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<servlet-mapping>

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<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

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</web-app>

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9.3) Configuration File
The following represents the Configuration File for holding various piece of Configuration
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case, it is the Bean Name Url Handler Mapping which means that the Url of the Client is
tightly coupled with the class name of the Bean (Controller). Since all the Jsp files are
maintained in the'/WEB/contacts' directory the 'prefix' property is pointing
to '/WEB/contacts'.
For the Create, Delete and List operation on Contacts, three different Controller
Components have been defined. They
are CreateContactController, DeleteContactController andListContacts
Controller respectively.
dispatcher-servlet.xml

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2
3

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"

4
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>

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<bean id="beanNameUrlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler

BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping"/>

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10

<bean name = "/CreateContact.htm" class="net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.

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contacts.CreateContactController">

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<property name="formView">

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<value>CreateContact</value>

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</property>

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<property name="successView">

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<value>ContactCreated</value>
</property>

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</bean>

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<bean name = "/DeleteContact.htm" class= "net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.

contacts.DeleteContactController">

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</bean>

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<bean name = "/ListContacts.htm" class= "net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.

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contacts.ListContactsController">

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</bean>

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<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.

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InternalResourceViewResolver">

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<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/contacts/"/>

<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />

9.4) CreateContact and ContactCreated Jsp Files

The following is the code for CreateContact.jsp file.
CreateContact.jsp

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2

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

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<title>Create a Contact</title>

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</head>

<body>

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<h1>Create a Contact</h1>

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11

<form name = "CreateContact" method = "get"">

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<input type = "text" name = "firstname" />

<input type = "text" name = "lastname" />

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<br>

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<input type="submit" name = "Create Contact" value = "Create Contact"/>

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</form>

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</body>

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</html>

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Note that since this is the page that will be shown to the user initially, in the Configuration
file, the property 'formView' is pointed to 'CreateContact'. Following is the code
for ContactCreated.jsp. Since this is the View that will be shown after the Form
Submission the property 'successView' is made to point to 'ContactCreated'.
ContactCreated.jsp

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<html>

2
<head>

<meta http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text/html; charset = UTF-8">

<title>Contact is Created</title>

</head>

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7

<body>

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<h1>Contact is successfully Created</h1>

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</body>

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</html>

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9.5) DeleteContact.jsp
Following is the complete listing for DeleteContact.jsp file. Note that this Jsp File is
mapped toDeleteContactController in the Configuration File.
DeleteContact.jsp

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2
3

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

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5
<title>Delete Contact</title>

</head>

<body>

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<h1>Delete Contact</h1>

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<form name = "DeleteContact" method = "get">

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<input type = "text" name = "firstname" />

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<br>

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<input type="submit" name = "DeleteContact" value = "Delete Contact"/>

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</form>

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</body>
</html>

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9.6) ListContacts.jsp
This page is to list all the existing Contacts that were created before. It should be noted
that theModel Object that holds all the Contact Information in the form of List is available
in the ListContactsController. The Model Information from the Controller after getting
bound to theRequest Scope is being taken off from the View in the form of Expression
Language.
Following is the listing for ListContacts.jsp
ListContacts.jsp

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2
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

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<title>Showing All Contacts</title>

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</head>
<body>

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<h1>Showing All Contacts</h1>

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<p> The following are the created Contacts </p>

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<c:forEach items = "${allContacts}" var="contact">

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<c:out value="${contact.firstname}"/><br>

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<c:out value="${contact.lastname}"/><br>

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</c:forEach>

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</body>
</html>

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9.7) Contacts.java
The following is the Class structure for Contacts.java for encapsulating the properties
firstname and lastname.
Contact.java

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package net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.contacts;

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public class Contact {

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private String firstName;

private String lastName;

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public Contact() {
}

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public Contact(String firstName, String lastName){

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this.firstName = firstName;

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this.lastName = lastName;
}

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public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;

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public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

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this.firstName = firstName;

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}

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public String getLastName() {

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return lastName;
}

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public void setLastName(String

lastName) {
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this.lastName = lastName;

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}

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9.8) ContactService.java
This simple service class provides functionalities for creating, deleting and listing the
Contact information. All the Controller Components makes use of this class to achieve
their respective functionalities.
ContactService.java

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package net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.contacts;

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import java.util.*;

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public class ContactService {

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private static Map contacts = new HashMap();

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public ContactService() {

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public static Contact createContact(Contact contact){

contacts.put(new Integer(contact.hashCode()), contact);

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return contact;

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public static Contact createContact(String firstName, String lastName){

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return createContact(new Contact(firstName, lastName));

}

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public static boolean deleteContact(String firstName){

Iterator iterator = contacts.entrySet().iterator();

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while (iterator.hasNext()){

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Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry)iterator.next();

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Contact contact = (Contact)entry.getValue();

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}

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return false;

9.9) Controller Classes

Following is the listing for CreateContact Controller. Note that since the Model
Information for creating a contact (for which the Client supplies the firstname and the
lastname parameters) is the Contact class, call has been made in the Constructor
to setCommandClass() by passing the class name of the Contact class.
CreateContactController.java

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package net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.contacts;

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import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleFormController;

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public class CreateContactController extends SimpleFormController{

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public CreateContactController() {

setCommandClass(Contact.class);

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public void doSubmitAction(Object command){

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Contact contact = (Contact)command;

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ContactService.createContact(contact);

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}

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Note that the method doSubmitAction() doesnt return anything because the next
Logical View to be displayed will be taken from the Configuration file which is
represented by the property called 'successView'.
Following two classes are the Controller Components for Deleting and Listing Contacts.
Note that in the case of Delete Operation, a Jsp Page (DeletedContact.jsp)
containing information telling that the Contact has been Deleted will displayed. But since
for the Contact Listing operation, the model information containing a Collection of
Contact Objects has to be passed from the Controller to the View and the same is
achieved in the 3 argument constructor to ModelAndView.
DeleteContactController.java

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package net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.contacts;

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4

import javax.servlet.http.*;

import org.springframework.validation.BindException;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

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import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractCommandController;

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public class DeleteContactController extends AbstractCommandController{

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public DeleteContactController(){

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setCommandClass(Contact.class);

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public ModelAndView handle(HttpServletRequest request,

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HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors)

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throws Exception {

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Contact contact = (Contact)command;

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ContactService.deleteContact(contact.getFirstName());

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return new ModelAndView("DeletedContact");

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}
}

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Here is the listing for ListContactsController.java.

ListContactsController.java

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package net.javabeat.articles.spring.mvc.contacts;

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4

import java.util.List;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

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import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController;

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public class ListContactsController extends AbstractController{

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public ListContactsController() {

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public ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest request,

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HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception{

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List allContacts = ContactService.listContacts();

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}
}

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