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To begin, make sure you have a working Eclipse IDE installed and follow the steps below to create a Spring Web Framework-based Dynamic Form-based Web Application.

Steps to create TextBox in Spring MVC:

Create a SpringMVCTextField project in the com.w3wiki package.
Under the com.w3wiki package, create the Java classes Registration and RegistrationController.
Create two view files in the jsp subfolder: Registration-page.jsp and confirmation-page.jsp.
The last stage is to construct the content of the source and configuration files, as well as to export the program, as described below.

Example Project

Project structure:

Step 1. Add dependencies to the pom.xml file.

You can download the required dependencies from URLs given in the comments of the program.

XML

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
           xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
                               http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> 
    
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> 
  <groupId>com.javatpoint</groupId> 
  <artifactId>SpringMVC</artifactId> 
  <packaging>war</packaging> 
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> 
  <name>SpringMVC Maven Webapp</name> 
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> 
  <dependencies> 
    <dependency> 
      <groupId>junit</groupId> 
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId> 
      <version>3.8.1</version> 
      <scope>test</scope> 
    </dependency> 
      
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-webmvc -->
    <dependency> 
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
        <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId> 
        <version>5.1.1.RELEASE</version> 
    </dependency> 
      
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/javax.servlet-api -->
    <dependency>   
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>   
        <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>   
        <version>3.0-alpha-1</version>   
    </dependency> 
      
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/jstl -->
    <dependency> 
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> 
        <artifactId>jstl</artifactId> 
        <version>1.2</version> 
    </dependency> 
      
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat/tomcat-jasper -->
    <dependency> 
        <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId> 
        <artifactId>tomcat-jasper</artifactId> 
        <version>9.0.12</version> 
    </dependency> 
  
  </dependencies> 
  <build> 
    <finalName>SpringMVC</finalName> 
  </build> 
</project> 

Step 2. Create the bean class

The bean class includes the variables (along with setter and getter methods) that correspond to the form’s input field.

Registration.java

Java

package com.geekforBeginner; 
public class Registration  
{ 
    private String firstName; 
    private String lastName; 
      
    public Registration() 
    {         
    } 
    public String getFirstName()  
    { 
        return firstName; 
    } 
    public void setFirstName(String firstName)  
    { 
        this.firstName = firstName; 
    } 
    public String getLastName()  
    { 
        return lastName; 
    } 
    public void setLastName(String lastName)  
    { 
        this.lastName = lastName; 
    }     
} 

Step 3. Create the controller class

RegistrationController.java

Java

package com.geekforBeginner; 
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; 
import org.springframework.ui.Model; 
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute; 
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; 
  
@RequestMapping("/Registration") 
@Controller
public class RegistrationController  
{ 
    
  @RequestMapping("/bookingForm") 
  public String bookingForm(Model model) 
  { 
      Registration res=new Registration(); 
      model.addAttribute("Registration", res); 
      return "Registration-page"; 
  } 
    
  @RequestMapping("/submitForm") 
  public String submitForm(@ModelAttribute("Registration") Registration res) 
  { 
      return "confirmation-form"; 
  } 
} 

Step 4. Provide the entry of controller in the web.xml file

web.xml

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<web-app> 
  <display-name>SpringMVC</display-name> 
   <servlet>   
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>   
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>   
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>     
</servlet>   
<servlet-mapping>   
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>   
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>   
</servlet-mapping>   
</web-app> 

Step 5. Define the bean in the XML file

spring-servlet.xml

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation=" 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd"> 
      
      <!-- Provide support for component scanning -->
    <context:component-scan base-package="com.geekforBeginner" /> 
      
      <!--Provide support for conversion, formatting and validation -->
    <mvc:annotation-driven/> 
      
      <!-- Define Spring MVC view resolver -->
     <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> 
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"></property> 
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"></property>      
     </bean> 
</beans> 

Step 6. Create the requested page

index.jsp

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<head> 
    <title>Student Registration Form</title> 
</head> 
<body> 
<a href="Registration/bookingForm">Click here for registration.</a> 
</body> 
</html>

Step 7. Create other view components

Registration-page.jsp

HTML

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %> 
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<head> 
    <title>Registration Form</title> 
</head> 
<h3>Student Registration Form</h3> 
<body> 
    <form:form action="submitForm" modelAttribute="Registration"> 
        First name: <form:input path="firstName" />         
        <br><br> 
        Last name: <form:input path="lastName" /> 
        <br><br> 
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />     
    </form:form> 
</body> 
</html>

confirmation-page.jsp

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<body> 
    
<p>Your Registration is confirmed successfully.</p> 
  
  First Name : ${Registration.firstName} <br> 
  Last Name : ${Registration.lastName} 
</body> 
</html>

Output:

After clicking the “Click here for registration” link following page will be shown

Click the submit button now