Chapter 2. Spring MVC Architecture – Architecting Your Web Store
What we saw in the first chapter is nothing but a glimpse of Spring MVC; in the previous chapter, our total focus was just on getting it to run a Spring MVC application. Now, it's time for us to deep-dive into Spring MVC architecture.
By the end of this chapter, you will have a clear understanding of:
- The dispatcher servlet and request mapping
- The web application context and configuration
- The Spring MVC request flow and Web MVC
- The web application architecture
The dispatcher servlet
In the first chapter, we were introduced to the dispatcher servlet and saw how to define a dispatcher servlet in web.xml. We learned that every web request first comes to the dispatcher servlet. The dispatcher ...
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