Spring Cookbook

Chapter 3. Using Controllers and Views

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Associating a route to a controller method
• Using a JSP view
• Passing attributes from a controller to a JSP view
• Using dynamic route parameters in a controller method
• Using a common prefix for the routes of a controller
• Using a page template with Tiles
• Executing some code before and after controllers using interceptors
• Building multilingual pages

Introduction

A Spring web application uses a MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture to process HTTP requests, as shown in the following image:

An HTTP request, identified by a route (for example, /user/list), executes a controller ...