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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 1 00:00:01,252 --> 00:00:02,812 In this video, we're going to get an 2 2 00:00:02,812 --> 00:00:04,729 overview of Spring MVC. 3 3 00:00:08,222 --> 00:00:10,133 So what is Spring MVC? 4 4 00:00:10,133 --> 00:00:12,549 Well, basically, it's a framework for building web 5 5 00:00:12,549 --> 00:00:14,480 applications in Java. 6 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,573 As the name suggests, it's based on the 7 7 00:00:16,573 --> 00:00:19,900 Model-View-Controller design pattern. 8 8 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:22,452 And also, the nice thing about it is that it leverages 9 9 00:00:22,452 --> 00:00:25,392 the features of the Core Spring Framework, so you can 10 10 00:00:25,392 --> 00:00:27,565 leverage all of your inversion of control, 11 11 00:00:27,565 --> 00:00:29,021 and dependency of injection. 12 12 00:00:29,021 --> 00:00:31,727 So everything that you've learned in the class so far 13 13 00:00:31,727 --> 00:00:34,894 you'll be able to apply in Spring MVC. 14 14 00:00:36,921 --> 00:00:40,114 Okay, so here's a big picture here of the MVC framework, 15 15 00:00:40,114 --> 00:00:43,109 and the process flow and how it works. 16 16 00:00:43,109 --> 00:00:45,695 So basically you have an incoming request coming from 17 17 00:00:45,695 --> 00:00:48,620 the browser, it'll encounter the Spring MVC 18 18 00:00:48,620 --> 00:00:50,341 front controller. 19 19 00:00:50,341 --> 00:00:53,042 This person will actually delegate the request off to a 20 20 00:00:53,042 --> 00:00:54,395 controller code. 21 21 00:00:54,395 --> 00:00:57,252 This controller code is code that you create that contains 22 22 00:00:57,252 --> 00:00:58,770 your business logic. 23 23 00:00:58,770 --> 00:01:01,509 You basically create a model, and you send the model back 24 24 00:01:01,509 --> 00:01:04,297 to the front controller, and then the front controller, 25 25 00:01:04,297 --> 00:01:06,968 will pass that model over to your view template. 26 26 00:01:06,968 --> 00:01:10,177 So your view template is basically like a html page, 27 27 00:01:10,177 --> 00:01:13,570 or a JSP page that will take that data, and then render 28 28 00:01:13,570 --> 00:01:15,751 a response to the browser. 29 29 00:01:15,751 --> 00:01:19,746 So that's kind of the big picture of the MVC framework. 30 30 00:01:19,746 --> 00:01:22,096 In following videos, I'll kind of break this down, 31 31 00:01:22,096 --> 00:01:25,020 and I'll go into more details on each step of the process. 32 32 00:01:25,020 --> 00:01:28,181 But anyway, this is a big picture here on how Spring MVC 33 33 00:01:28,181 --> 00:01:30,431 will process a web request. 34 34 00:01:32,656 --> 00:01:36,180 Alright, so what are the benefits of using Spring MVC? 35 35 00:01:36,180 --> 00:01:39,105 Well it's basically Spring's way of building 36 36 00:01:39,105 --> 00:01:40,868 web apps using Java. 37 37 00:01:40,868 --> 00:01:44,138 So basically you can leverage a set of reusable UI 38 38 00:01:44,138 --> 00:01:46,268 components, and these are available in the form of 39 39 00:01:46,268 --> 00:01:48,806 Spring JSP custom tags. 40 40 00:01:48,806 --> 00:01:51,980 You can also manage your application state for web requests 41 41 00:01:51,980 --> 00:01:55,389 for session tracking, or application tracking, 42 42 00:01:55,389 --> 00:01:58,203 and you can also process your form data, so you can also 43 43 00:01:58,203 --> 00:02:01,066 perform validation on the form data, conversion, 44 44 00:02:01,066 --> 00:02:02,606 so on and so forth. 45 45 00:02:02,606 --> 00:02:06,088 And finally, Spring MVC has a very flexible configuration 46 46 00:02:06,088 --> 00:02:08,797 for the view layers, so you're not limited to only using 47 47 00:02:08,797 --> 00:02:12,686 JSP, you can use other view layers like Thymeleaf, 48 48 00:02:12,686 --> 00:02:14,686 Velocity, or FreeMarker. 49 49 00:02:15,638 --> 00:02:19,616 And I'll talk about this in some of the following videos. 50 50 00:02:19,616 --> 00:02:22,648 Alright, now as far as documentation, there's a lot of 51 51 00:02:22,648 --> 00:02:24,493 good documentation available. 52 52 00:02:24,493 --> 00:02:27,606 Here's the official documentation from Spring. 53 53 00:02:27,606 --> 00:02:29,132 You can go to this website I have here, 54 54 00:02:29,132 --> 00:02:32,108 luv2code.com/spring-mvc-docs. 55 55 00:02:32,108 --> 00:02:35,434 This will basically just redirect you to the official 56 56 00:02:35,434 --> 00:02:37,606 documentation at the Spring website. 57 57 00:02:37,606 --> 00:02:39,870 So they have a very good write up on how the framework 58 58 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:43,646 works, details, and pretty much everything you need to know 59 59 00:02:43,646 --> 00:02:46,281 is available in that documentation. 60 60 00:02:46,281 --> 00:02:49,804 That's the actually Spring reference manual. 61 61 00:02:49,804 --> 00:02:52,033 And if you wanted to have more information about Spring, 62 62 00:02:52,033 --> 00:02:54,256 well there's plenty of books online. 63 63 00:02:54,256 --> 00:02:57,203 So you can simply go to Amazon, you can type in the word 64 64 00:02:57,203 --> 00:02:59,803 Spring MVC and do a search, and you'll have a lot of good 65 65 00:02:59,803 --> 00:03:02,017 hits out there, so a lot of good books out there. 66 66 00:03:02,017 --> 00:03:05,006 Go ahead and read the reviews, see which ones work for you, 67 67 00:03:05,006 --> 00:03:06,777 and you can proceed accordingly. 68 68 00:03:06,777 --> 00:03:09,641 But a lot of information's available at Amazon, and also 69 69 00:03:09,641 --> 00:03:12,147 there's a lot of free websites that have Spring MVC 70 70 00:03:12,147 --> 00:03:13,397 tutorials, too. 71 71 00:03:15,128 --> 00:03:17,412 Alright, so that was just a quick overview of Spring MVC. 72 72 00:03:17,412 --> 00:03:19,701 In the following videos I'll go into some details, 73 73 00:03:19,701 --> 00:03:22,741 I'll give you a quick behind-the-scenes tour of Spring MVC, 74 74 00:03:22,741 --> 00:03:24,964 and then we'll set up our development environment, 75 75 00:03:24,964 --> 00:03:27,222 and then we'll start writing some code. 76 76 00:03:27,222 --> 00:03:30,055 So I'll see you in the next video. 6908