Web

Spring provides its own MVC framework, Spring MVC, other than providing great integration with popular web frameworks such as Struts.

Important artifacts/modules are listed as follows:

  • spring-web: Provides basic web features, such as multi-part file upload. Provides support for integration with other web frameworks, such as Struts.
  • spring-webmvc: Provides a fully featured web MVC framework--Spring MVC, which includes features to implement REST services as well.

We will cover Spring MVC and develop web applicaitions and rest services with it in Chapter 3, Building Web Application with Spring MVC and Chapter 5, Building Microservices with Spring Boot.

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