Spring Boot MVC and Hibernate Demo 💽

This is a demo project that is developed using hibernate and Spring-MVC on Spring Boot.

Front Controller Working

Servlet or Dispatcher Servlet is actually the front-controller of a Spring-MVC application. Web Servlet is configured automatically in spring-boot, there is no need to add boilerplate code for that.

Project Setup

This resource helped in creating MVC project with Spring-boot.
Create a new Spring Boot Project using Spring Initializr
Download and open the folder.
Make sure to add the following dependencies in your pom.xml file.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.2</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.osama</groupId>
    <artifactId>mvc-and-hibernate</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>mvc-and-hibernate</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>11</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <!-- JSTL tag lib -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
            <artifactId>standard</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Tomcat for JSP rendering -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Create a package named controller and add a test-controller class.

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package com.osama.mvcandhibernate.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
public class TestController {

    @RequestMapping("/")
    public String index() {
        return "index";
    }

    @GetMapping("/hello")
    public String hello() {
        return "test";
    }
}

Create the directory java/webapp/WEB-INF/views.
Add index.jsp and test.jsp files in the java/webapp/WEB-INF/views directory.
Add the following contents in the application.properties file:

application.properties file contents...

server.port = 4200
spring.mvc.view.prefix = /WEB-INF/views/
spring.mvc.view.suffix = .jsp
spring.mvc.static-path-pattern=/resources/**

The complete directory structure:

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osama127001/spring-boot-MVC-HIBERNATE

Spring Boot MVC and Hibernate Demo 💽

Front Controller Working

Project Setup