Spring MVC 3 - hello world example - Quick start

This tutorial helps you to quickly create and run a spring-mvc hello world application.  Spring version used for this example is 3.2.3-RELEASE.

Prerequisites

1. JDK 1.6+
2. Eclipse Juno+
3. Spring IDE 3.4+ for eclipse
4. Maven 3
5. Maven Integration plugin for eclipse
6. Tomcat 7+

Initial Steps

Right click and create New --> Spring project.  In the next dialog, fill in the project name as "spring-mvc-spring-sample" and select "Spring MVC Project".  Please specify package name "com.ananth.spring" and click Finish.

Run your application

Right click on your eclipse project --> Run As --> Run on server --> Finish.

From your browser navigate to http://localhost:8080/spring/ you will see this screen.

The source can be download from github. Next chapter Spring MVC with Spring security & Hibernate.