Configuring a Spring MVC Application - Part 1

Learn how to configure a Spring MVC application.

In the Spring MVC architecture, any request coming from the browser would go to the front controller (dispatcher servlet), which sends it to a controller or a JSP. To migrate the web application, we will add the Spring MVC dependency, configure the dispatcher servlet in web.xml and create a configuration file for the dispatcher servlet.

1. Spring MVC dependency

To use Spring MVC functionality in our application, add the following dependency to the pom.xml file:

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