Setting Up a Web Application

Before we delve into Spring MVC, we will lay down the foundational knowledge and prerequisites needed to understand and work with it. We will learn the essential steps in setting up a web application environment. These include understanding how to create a simple Maven project, include dependencies like the Java EE Web API, configure plugins for compiling code and deploying to a servlet container, and configure the web.xml file. This knowledge provides a basis for learning more advanced topics like Spring MVC, which is a framework for building web applications using the Model-View-Controller pattern.

Creating a simple Maven project

We will create a web application using Maven as it makes development easier. Maven is a Java build tool which manages all the dependencies of an application. Create a simple Maven ...