Flash attribute
In a normal Spring MVC application, every form submitted POSTs the form data to the server; a normal Spring Controller retrieves the data from those forms from the request and processes it further. Once the operation is successful, the user is forwarded to another page showing a message that the operation was a success.
Traditionally, if we handle this scenario via the POST/Forward/GET pattern, then it may sometimes cause multiple form submission issues. The user might press F5 and the same form will be submitted again. To resolve this issue, the POST/Redirect/GET pattern is used in many web applications. Once the user's form is submitted successfully, we redirect the request to another success page instead of forwarding it. This ...
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