Spring MVC with JSP View

Spring MVC with JSP View is a web framework based on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) architecture, where Spring handles request routing and business logic while JSP is used to generate dynamic views.

• Uses Spring MVC controllers to handle requests and manage business logic
• JSP acts as the view layer to display dynamic data
• Supports annotation-based configuration and clear separation of concerns

Steps to implement Spring MVC with JSP

Below are the basic steps to implement Spring MVC with JSP, starting from project setup to rendering JSP views using controllers.

Step 1: Create the Project

• Eclipse IDE: File -> New -> Dynamic Web Project (check "Generate web.xml")
• IntelliJ: New -> Project > Maven -> Web App archetype

Step 2: Add Maven Dependencies

Add below dependencies in pom.xml file:

Step 3: Configure web.xml

This file tells the servlet container how to load the Spring DispatcherServlet and which file has Spring configurations.

web.xml

Step 4: Create Spring Configuration file

This file initializes Spring MVC, scans your Java classes and sets up view resolution (JSP mapping) WebApplicationContext. And this contains the MVC-specific configurations including view-resolvers, datasource, messagesource, multipart-resolver (file-upload), etc.

mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml

Step 5: Create the Controller

Create a controller class to handle requests, process data, and add it to the model.

Step 6: Create the JSP View.

Place this file inside: src/main/webapp/greet.jsp

greet.jsp

Step 7: Run the Application

• Deploy the project on Tomcat
• Open browser:

http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCApp/

Output: