How do you create a Spring MVC project in Eclipse?

Question

I am trying to follow the basic tutorial for Spring MVC but got lost at creating a new project in Eclipse.
It seems to me that most tutorials assume you know how to create a Spring Project in Eclipse.
Any advice on where to get started or tutorials which explain how to set up Eclipse would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You want to create a "Dynamic Web Project". Follow the steps here: Spring MVC Tutorial with Eclipse and Tomcat .

Also, here is the Eclipse documentation for Dynamic Web Projects: http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.wst.webtools.doc.user/topics/ccwebprj.html

Answer 2

Download Spring STS (SpringSource Tool Suite) and choose Spring Template Project from the Dashboard. This is the easiest way to get a preconfigured spring mvc project, ready to go.

Answer 3

You don't necessarily have to create a Spring project . Almost all Java web applications have he same project structure. In almost every project I create, I automatically add these source folder:

• src/main/java
• src/main/resources
• src/test/java
• src/test/resources
• src/main/webapp*

src/main/webapp isn't actually a source folder. The web.xml file under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF will allow you to run your java application on any Java enabled web server (Tomcat, Jetty, etc.). I typically add the Jetty Plugin to my POM (assuming you use Maven), and launch the web app in development using mvn clean jetty:run .

Answer 4

This is the easiest way :

step 1) install Spring Tool Suite (STS) for eclipse (version 3.7.0RELEASE or above) To do this you can go to Help >> eclipse market place , then type Spring Tool suite in search box.

step 2) now go to file >> new >> spring project as shown in the image below

step 3)now choose the template as "spring MVC Project" and give a name to your project on the top as shown below ( I named it 'SpringProject')

step 4)now give a base package name like this

and that is . The project will be created in a few minutes and Now you can right click on it and run on server.

Answer 5

1. step 1 : create a new "Dynamic Web Project" in eclipse.
2. step 2 : right click on the created project.
3. step 3 : click on "configure" option.
4. step 4 : click on "convert to maven project".

here is more detailed information -> [1]: https://crunchify.com/simplest-spring-mvc-hello-world-example-tutorial-spring-model-view-controller-tips/