Spring MVC Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – serving and processing forms

The Spring tag library provides some special <form> and <input> tags that are more or less similar to HTML form and input tags, but it has some special attributes to bind the form elements data with the form-backing bean. Let's create a Spring web form in our application to add new products to our product list by performing the following steps:

1. We open our ProductRepository interface and add one more method declaration in it as follows:

   void addProduct(Product product);

2. We then add an implementation for this method in the InMemoryProductRepository class as follows:

   public void addProduct(Product product) {
      listOfProducts.add(product);
   }

3. We open our ProductService interface and add one more method declaration ...