Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

Spring MVC dependencies

As we are going to use Spring MVC APIs heavily in our project, we need to add the Spring jars in our project to make use of it in our development. As mentioned previously, Maven will take care of managing dependency jars and packaging the project.

Time for action - adding Spring jars to the project

Let's take a look at how we can add the Spring-related jars via the Maven configuration:

1. Open pom.xml; you can find pom.xml under the root directory of the project itself.
2. You will see some tabs at the bottom of the pom.xml file. Select the Dependencies tab.

   Tip

   If you do not see these tabs, then right-click on pom.xml, select the Open With... option from the context menu, and choose Maven POM editor.

3. Click on the Add button in the ...