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 crea

Answer 1

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.