Chapter 7. Integrating with Other Web Frameworks

The flexibility offered by Spring Framework to pick third-party products is one of the core value propositions of Spring and Spring supports integration with third-party presentation frameworks. While Spring's presentation layer framework—Spring MVC, brings the maximum extent of flexibility and efficiency to the development of web applications, Spring lets you integrate most popular presentation frameworks.

Spring can be integrated with far too many of Java's web frameworks to be included in this chapter, and only the most popular ones, JSF and Struts, will be explained.

Spring's JSF integration

A JSF web application can be easily integrated with Spring by loading a Spring context file within web.xml ...

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