Spring MVC in the Sample Application

Many topics discussed in this chapter will be adopted in the sample application for implementing the presentation layer, and their relationships will be covered in this section.

MVC Implementation for SpringBlog

For the presentation layer of the SpringBlog application, Spring MVC will be used for implementing the MVC pattern, and JSPX will be used as the view technology. The usage of Spring MVC and related libraries are as follows:

• Internationalization: Spring MVC's built-in support for i18n will be used to support various languages in the SpringBlog application. In SpringBlog, support of English (US) and Chinese (HK) will be provided.
• Theming: We will use the theming support in Spring MVC. For example, the <spring:theme> tag will be used in a page template to load the active theme being used.