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In this video, we're going to get an 2

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overview of Spring MVC. 3

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So what is Spring MVC? 4

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Well, basically, it's a framework for building web 5

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applications in Java. 6

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As the name suggests, it's based on the 7

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Model-View-Controller design pattern. 8

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And also, the nice thing about it is that it leverages 9

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the features of the Core Spring Framework, so you can 10

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leverage all of your inversion of control, 11

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and dependency of injection. 12

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So everything that you've learned in the class so far 13

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you'll be able to apply in Spring MVC. 14

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Okay, so here's a big picture here of the MVC framework, 15

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and the process flow and how it works. 16

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So basically you have an incoming request coming from 17

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the browser, it'll encounter the Spring MVC 18

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front controller. 19

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This person will actually delegate the request off to a 20

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controller code. 21

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This controller code is code that you create that contains 22

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your business logic. 23

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You basically create a model, and you send the model back 24

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to the front controller, and then the front controller, 25

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will pass that model over to your view template. 26

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So your view template is basically like a html page, 27

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or a JSP page that will take that data, and then render 28

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a response to the browser. 29

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So that's kind of the big picture of the MVC framework. 30

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In following videos, I'll kind of break this down, 31

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and I'll go into more details on each step of the process. 32

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But anyway, this is a big picture here on how Spring MVC 33

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will process a web request. 34

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Alright, so what are the benefits of using Spring MVC? 35

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Well it's basically Spring's way of building 36

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web apps using Java. 37

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So basically you can leverage a set of reusable UI 38

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components, and these are available in the form of 39

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Spring JSP custom tags. 40

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You can also manage your application state for web requests 41

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for session tracking, or application tracking, 42

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and you can also process your form data, so you can also 43

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perform validation on the form data, conversion, 44

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so on and so forth. 45

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And finally, Spring MVC has a very flexible configuration 46

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for the view layers, so you're not limited to only using 47

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JSP, you can use other view layers like Thymeleaf, 48

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Velocity, or FreeMarker. 49

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And I'll talk about this in some of the following videos. 50

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Alright, now as far as documentation, there's a lot of 51

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good documentation available. 52

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Here's the official documentation from Spring. 53

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You can go to this website I have here, 54

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luv2code.com/spring-mvc-docs. 55

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This will basically just redirect you to the official 56

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documentation at the Spring website. 57

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So they have a very good write up on how the framework 58

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works, details, and pretty much everything you need to know 59

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is available in that documentation. 60

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That's the actually Spring reference manual. 61

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And if you wanted to have more information about Spring, 62

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well there's plenty of books online. 63

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So you can simply go to Amazon, you can type in the word 64

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Spring MVC and do a search, and you'll have a lot of good 65

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hits out there, so a lot of good books out there. 66

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Go ahead and read the reviews, see which ones work for you, 67

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and you can proceed accordingly. 68

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But a lot of information's available at Amazon, and also 69

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there's a lot of free websites that have Spring MVC 70

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tutorials, too. 71

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Alright, so that was just a quick overview of Spring MVC. 72

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In the following videos I'll go into some details, 73

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I'll give you a quick behind-the-scenes tour of Spring MVC, 74

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and then we'll set up our development environment, 75

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and then we'll start writing some code. 76

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So I'll see you in the next video.