spring 3 mvc hello world + mavern +jetty

 

By mkyong | August 2, 2011 | Updated : June 15, 2015

In this tutorial, we show you a Spring 3 MVC hello world example, using Maven build tool.

Technologies used :

1. Spring 3.2.13.RELEASE
2. Maven 3
3. JDK 1.6
4. Eclipse 4.4
5. Boostrap 3

Spring 4 MVC XML
Try this Spring 4 MVC hello world example.

Spring 3 MVC Annotation
Try this Spring 3 MVC hello world annotation example.

1. Project Structure

Download the project source code and review the project folder structure :

 

2. Maven

A pom.xml template to quick start a Spring MVC project, it defines Spring 3 dependencies, an embedded Jetty container and Eclipse workspace 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.mkyong</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring3-web</artifactId>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>spring css</name>

	<properties>
		<jdk.version>1.6</jdk.version>
		<spring.version>3.2.13.RELEASE</spring.version>
		<jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
	</properties>

	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
			<version>${spring.version}</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
			<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
			<version>${jstl.version}</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>

	<build>
	  <plugins>
		<plugin>
			<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
			<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
			<version>3.3</version>
			<configuration>
				<source>${jdk.version}</source>
				<target>${jdk.version}</target>
			</configuration>
		</plugin>

		<!-- embedded Jetty server, for testing -->
		<plugin>