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Standard controller implementations for the portlet MVC framework that
comes with Spring. Provides both abstract base classes and concrete
implementations for often seen use cases.
A Controller - as defined in this package - is analogous to a Struts
Action. Usually Controllers are JavaBeans
to allow easy configuration using the {@link org.springframework.beans org.springframework.beans}
package. Controllers define the C from so-called MVC paradigm
and can be used in conjunction with the {@link org.springframework.web.portlet.ModelAndView ModelAndView}
to achieve interactive applications. The view might be represented by a
HTML interface, but, because of model and the controller being completely
independent of the view, PDF views are possible, as well as for instance Excel
views.
Especially useful to read, while getting into the Spring MVC framework
are the following: