Chapter 3. Control Your Store with Controllers
In Chapter 2, Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store you saw the overall architecture of a Spring MVC application. We didn't go into any of the concepts in depth; our aim was for you to understand the overall flow.
In Spring MVC, the concept of Controllers has an important role, so we are going to look at Controllers in-depth in this chapter. This chapter will cover concepts such as:
- Defining a Controller
- URI template patterns
- Matrix variables
- Request parameters
The role of a Controller in Spring MVC
In Spring MVC, the Controller's methods are the final destination point that a web request can reach. After being invoked, the Controller's method starts to process the web request by interacting ...
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