Spring MVC Hibernate MySQL CRUD example

In this post, we are going to see integration of Spring MVC, hibernate and mysql CRUD
example.

We have already seen integration of Spring Rest with hibernate in previous tutorial.
Here are steps to create a project with Spring MVC , hibernate and mySQL crud example.

1) Create a dynamic web project using maven in eclipse named

"SpringMVCHibernateCRUDExample".

Maven dependencies
2) We are using Spring 4 and Hibernate 4 for this application. It should work with
hibernate 3 also but we need to do small changes in hibernate configuration.
pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-
v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.arpit.java2blog</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringMVCHibernateCRUDExample</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SpringMVCHibernateCRUDExample Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
 <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Apache Commons DBCP -->

<dependency>
<groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring ORM -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

<!-- AspectJ -->

<dependency>
<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
<version>${org.aspectj-version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.6</version>
</dependency>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/jstl/jstl -->
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
 <version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>SpringMVCHibernateCRUDExample</finalName>

<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>

</build>
<properties>
<spring.version>4.2.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
<security.version>4.0.3.RELEASE</security.version>
<jdk.version>1.7</jdk.version>
<hibernate.version>4.3.5.Final</hibernate.version>
<org.aspectj-version>1.7.4</org.aspectj-version>
</properties>
</project>

Spring application configuration

3) Change web.xml as below:

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

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
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>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationcontext.xml</param-value>
 </context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

4) create a xml file named spring-servlet.xml in /WEB-INF/ folder.

Please change context:component-scan if you want to use different package for spring to
search for controller.Please refer to spring mvc hello world example for more understanding.

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

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">

<annotation-driven />
<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</beans:bean>

<beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"

destroy-method="close">
 <beans:property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<beans:property name="url"
value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/CountryData" />
<beans:property name="username" value="root" />
<beans:property name="password" value="" />
</beans:bean>

<!-- Hibernate 4 SessionFactory Bean definition -->

<beans:bean id="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<beans:property name="annotatedClasses">
<beans:list>
<beans:value>org.arpit.java2blog.model.Country</beans:value>
</beans:list>
</beans:property>
<beans:property name="hibernateProperties">
<beans:props>
<beans:prop
key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</beans:prop>
<beans:prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</beans:prop>
</beans:props>
</beans:property>
</beans:bean>

<context:component-scan base-package="org.arpit.java2blog" />

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

<beans:bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<beans:property name="sessionFactory"
ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" />
</beans:bean>
</beans:beans>

In Spring-servlet.xml, we have done hibernate configuration.

dataSource bean is used to specify java data source. We need to provide driver, URL ,
Username and Password.
transactionManager bean is used to configure hibernate transaction manager.
hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory bean is used to configure FactoryBean that creates a
Hibernate SessionFactory. This is the common way to set up a shared Hibernate
SessionFactory in a Spring application context, so you can use this SessionFactory to inject
in Hibernate data access objects.
Create a applicationcontext.xml in WEB-INF folder, this file is used for bean configuration as
we are using spring-servlet.xml for bean configuration , we will keep this file empty.

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

<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">
</beans:beans>

Create bean class

5) Create a bean name "Country.java" in org.arpit.java2blog.bean.

package org.arpit.java2blog.model;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

// This is our model class and it corresponds to Country table in database

@Entity
@Table(name="COUNTRY")
public class Country{

@Id
@Column(name="id")
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.IDENTITY)
int id;

@Column(name="countryName")
String countryName;

@Column(name="population")
long population;

public Country() {
super();
}
public Country(int i, String countryName,long population) {
super();
this.id = i;
 this.countryName = countryName;
this.population=population;
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getCountryName() {
return countryName;
}
public void setCountryName(String countryName) {
this.countryName = countryName;
}
public long getPopulation() {
return population;
}
public void setPopulation(long population) {
this.population = population;
}
}

@Entity is used for making a persistent pojo class.For this java class,you will have
corresponding table in database. @Column is used to map annotated attribute to
corresponding column in table. So Create Country table in mysql database with following
code:

CREATE TABLE COUNTRY (

id int PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
countryName varchar(100) NOT NULL,
population int NOT NULL
);

Create Controller
6) Create a controller named "CountryController.java" in package
org.arpit.java2blog.controller

package org.arpit.java2blog.controller;
import java.util.List;
import org.arpit.java2blog.model.Country;
import org.arpit.java2blog.service.CountryService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;

@Controller
public class CountryController {
@Autowired
CountryService countryService;

@RequestMapping(value = "/getAllCountries", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers =

"Accept=application/json")
public String getCountries(Model model) {

List<Country> listOfCountries = countryService.getAllCountries();

model.addAttribute("country", new Country());
model.addAttribute("listOfCountries", listOfCountries);
return "countryDetails";
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/getCountry/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers =

"Accept=application/json")
public Country getCountryById(@PathVariable int id) {
return countryService.getCountry(id);
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/addCountry", method = RequestMethod.POST, headers =

"Accept=application/json")
public String addCountry(@ModelAttribute("country") Country country) {
if(country.getId()==0)
{
countryService.addCountry(country);
}
else
{
countryService.updateCountry(country);
}
return "redirect:/getAllCountries";
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/updateCountry/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers =

"Accept=application/json")
public String updateCountry(@PathVariable("id") int id,Model model) {
model.addAttribute("country", this.countryService.getCountry(id));
model.addAttribute("listOfCountries", this.countryService.getAllCountries());
return "countryDetails";
}

@RequestMapping(value = "/deleteCountry/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET, headers =

"Accept=application/json")
public String deleteCountry(@PathVariable("id") int id) {
 countryService.deleteCountry(id);
return "redirect:/getAllCountries";
}
}

Create DAO class

Create a class CountryDAO.java in package org.arpit.java2blog.dao. This class will execute
hibernate statements while interacting with database.

package org.arpit.java2blog.dao;
import java.util.List;
import org.arpit.java2blog.model.Country;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

@Repository
public class CountryDAO {

@Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sf) {

this.sessionFactory = sf;
}

public List<Country> getAllCountries() {

Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
List<Country> countryList = session.createQuery("from Country").list();
return countryList;
}

public Country getCountry(int id) {

Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
Country country = (Country) session.load(Country.class, new Integer(id));
return country;
}

public Country addCountry(Country country) {

Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
session.persist(country);
return country;
}

public void updateCountry(Country country) {

Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
session.update(country);
}

public void deleteCountry(int id) {

Session session = this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
Country p = (Country) session.load(Country.class, new Integer(id));
if (null != p) {
session.delete(p);
}
}
}

@Repository is specialised component annotation which is used to create bean at DAO layer.
We have use Autowired annotation to inject hibernate SessionFactory into CountryDAO class.
We have already configured hibernate SessionFactory object in Spring-Servlet.xml file.

Create Service class

7) Create a class CountryService.java in package org.arpit.java2blog.service
It is service level class. It will call DAO layer class.

package org.arpit.java2blog.service;
import java.util.List;
import org.arpit.java2blog.dao.CountryDAO;
import org.arpit.java2blog.model.Country;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;

@Service("countryService")
public class CountryService {

@Autowired
CountryDAO countryDao;

@Transactional
public List<Country> getAllCountries() {
return countryDao.getAllCountries();
}

@Transactional
public Country getCountry(int id) {
return countryDao.getCountry(id);
}

@Transactional
public void addCountry(Country country) {
countryDao.addCountry(country);
}
@Transactional
public void updateCountry(Country country) {
countryDao.updateCountry(country);
}

@Transactional
public void deleteCountry(int id) {
countryDao.deleteCountry(id);
}
}

@Service is specialised component annotation which is used to create bean at Service layer.

Create view
Create view called countryDetails.jsp in WEB-INF/view/ folder.

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form" %>
<html>
<head>
<style>
.blue-button{
background: #25A6E1;
filter: progid:
DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#25A6E1',endColorstr='#188BC0',GradientTyp
e=0);
padding:3px 5px;
color:#fff;
font-family:'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
border-radius:2px;
-moz-border-radius:2px;
-webkit-border-radius:4px;
border:1px solid #1A87B9
}
table {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
width: 50%;
}
th {
background: SteelBlue;
color: white;
}
td,th{
border: 1px solid gray;
width: 25%;
text-align: left;
 padding: 5px 10px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form:form method="post" modelAttribute="country"
action="/SpringMVCHibernateCRUDExample/addCountry">
<table>
<tr>
<th colspan="2">Add Country</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<form:hidden path="id" />
<td><form:label path="countryName">Country Name:</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="countryName" size="30" maxlength="30"></form:input></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><form:label path="population">Population:</form:label></td>
<td><form:input path="population" size="30" maxlength="30"></form:input></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><input type="submit"
class="blue-button" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form:form>
</br>
<h3>Country List</h3>
<c:if test="${!empty listOfCountries}">
<table class="tg">
<tr>
<th width="80">Id</th>
<th width="120">Country Name</th>
<th width="120">Population</th>
<th width="60">Edit</th>
<th width="60">Delete</th>
</tr>
<c:forEach items="${listOfCountries}" var="country">
<tr>
<td>${country.id}</td>
<td>${country.countryName}</td>
<td>${country.population}</td>
<td><a href="<c:url value='/updateCountry/${country.id}' />" >Edit</a></td>
<td><a href="<c:url value='/deleteCountry/${country.id}' />" >Delete</a></td>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
</c:if>
</body>
</html>
8) It 's time to do maven build.
Right click on project -> Run as -> Maven build

9) Provide goals as clean install (given below) and click on run

Run the application

10) Right click on project -> run as -> run on server
Select apache tomcat and click on finish
11) Now lets hit below URL to getAllCountries.
http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCHibernateCRUDExample/getAllCountries
You will get below screen:

As you can see, we did not add any country to the list, so it is empty.
Lets add Country named India to country list and click submit.
Similarly we will add China , Bhutan and Nepal respectively and you will see below screen.
As you can see, china got deleted from above list.
Project structure: