Template Project for Spring MVC 4 & Eclipse Dynamic Web Project

Spring MVC 4 Eclipse Dynamic Web Project Folder Structure

The article presents information, instructions and a downloadable eclipse dynamic web project that one could import in his/her Eclipse IDE and quickly get started with Spring MVC Hello World project.

Web Application Folder Structure

Following is the Eclipse dynamic web project folder structure based on which files in the template are laid out.

Spring MVC 4 Eclipse Dynamic Web Project Folder Structure

Important Files

Pay attention to some of the following important files:

/WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml: A file that cnsists of configuration related with how web requests will be handled using DispatcherServlet.
/WebContent/WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml: A file that consists of information on component model/lifecycle along with view handling.
/WebContent/WEB-INF/views: A folder that consists of JSP files that acts as a view and referred in Controllers.
/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib: A folder that consists of Spring libraries along with dependencies such as commons-logging-1.1.3.jar and com.springsource.org.aopalliance-1.0.0.jar
/WebContent/WEB-INF/bootstrap (optional): A folder that consists of bootstrap CSS and JS files. Note that Bootstrap is a UI framework that can be downloaded from http://getbootstrap.com. This is an optional folder.
/src: A folder that consists of all the source files within different packages. For example, in this template, the project is com.orgname.hello

Download Spring MVC 4 Eclipse Dynamic Web Template Project

Download the eclipse dynamic web project from following link. Unzip the downloaded project using WinRAR. Import the project in your Eclipse IDE. Get started quickly with Spring MVC 4. NOTE that the project works fine with Tomcat 8 and Eclipse JEE Kepler. Read the instructions from following page on how to configure Eclipse Kepler with Tomcat 8 Server.

SpringMVC4DynamicWebProjectTemplate

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I have been recently working in the area of Data analytics including Data Science and Machine Learning / Deep Learning. I am also passionate about different technologies including programming languages such as Java/JEE, Javascript, Python, R, Julia, etc, and technologies such as Blockchain, mobile computing, cloud-native technologies, application security, cloud computing platforms, big data, etc. I would love to connect with you on Linkedin. Check out my latest book titled as First Principles Thinking: Building winning products using first principles thinking.