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Standard controller implementations for the servlet 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.servlet.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.
How to actually set up a (web)application using the MVC framework Spring
provides is explained in more detail in the
MVC-Step-by-Step
tutorial, also provided in this package (or have a look
here for an online version).
The classes contained by this package explain in more detail the actual
workflow of some of the abstract and concrete controller and how to extend
and fully use their functionality.
Especially useful to read, while getting into the Spring MVC framework
are the following: