Introduction to Spring MVC in pdf

This document is a step-by-step guide on how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework.

Only a cursory knowledge of Spring itself is assumed, and as such this tutorial is ideal if you are learning or investigating Spring. Hopefully by the time you have worked your way through the tutorial material you will see how the constituent parts of the Spring Framework, namely Inversion of Control (IoC), Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), and the various Spring service libraries (such as the JDBC library) all fit together in the context of a Spring MVC web application.

Spring provides several options for configuring your application. The most popular one is using XML files. This is also the traditional way that has been supported from the first release of Spring. With the introduction of Annotations in Java 5, we now have an alternate way of configuring our Spring applications. The new Spring 2.5 release introduces extensive support for using Annotations to configure a web application.