URI-template is a string containing one or more variables or place holders which can be replaced to generate URL out of this. Though this feature appears simple, but uses of this can be significant. Suppose we want to have valid a user id or a session id with each in coming request. Instead of retrieving this attribute from request or session object, we receive as a url variable. Let us see how this works.

If we look at the new technologies introduced in Java domain, it can be clearly seen that web tier is one of the prime focus area now a days. Evolution of Java web technology had been slow as compared to the middle tier and persistent data access technology for past few years. For ages, we have been building presentation tier of our application around the jsp technology, with minor variation in the way we are constructing a jsp page. Though web tier is face of any application, and it has …

This tutorial is to give you complete understanding of Spring MVC concepts along with important code examples.

Most of the presentation tier frameworks provide support to client side validations. Spring MVC is not different in this principle. Just that the way it is implemented is little different.

This article takes you through steps of integration of Spring MVC with Tiles with source code.