Pro Spring MVC provides in-depth coverage of Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow, two highly customizable and powerful web frameworks brought to you by the developers and community of the Spring Framework.

Spring MVC is a modern web application framework built upon the Spring Framework, and Spring Web Flow is a project that complements Spring MVC for building reusable web controller modules that encapsulate rich page navigation rules. Along with detailed analysis of the code and functionality, plus the first published coverage of Spring Web Flow 2.x, this book includes numerous tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, and web development in general.

Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow have been upgraded in the new Spring Framework 3.1 and are engineered with important considerations for design patterns and expert object-oriented programming techniques. This book explains not only the design decisions of the frameworks, but also how you can apply similar designs and techniques to your own code.

This book takes great care in covering every inch of Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow to give you the complete picture. Along with all the best known features of these frameworks, you’ll discover some new hidden treasures. You’ll also learn how to correctly and safely extend the frameworks to create customized solutions. This book is for anyone who wishes to write robust, modern, and useful web applications with the Spring Framework.

What you’ll learn

Key Spring Framework fundamentals
How to use the Spring MVC architecture
How to develop with the DispatcherServlet
How to write Controllers
How to work with Resolving and Implementing Views
What are the supported View Types
How to customize your website
What is and how to use the Spring Web Flow framework
How to test your Spring MVC applications
How to implement Spring Security

Who this book is for

This book is for Spring or Java EE application developers who want to learn and fully leverage Spring's Web-tier creator and framework, Spring MVC. This book is also for experienced enterprise and Java programmers who are new to the Spring Framework.
Table of Contents

Configuring a Spring Development Environment
Spring Framework Fundamentals
Web Application Architecture
Spring MVC Architecture
Implementing Controllers Implementing Controllers – Advanced
REST and AJAX
Resolving and Implementing Views
Testing Spring MVC Applications
Spring Web Flow
Building Applications with Spring Web Flow
Advanced Spring Web Flow
Spring Security
Cloud Foundry - Deploying to the Cloud