Introducing Spring Framework

Chapter 10 ■ Showing Your Spring Application on the Web
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${doc.location}:
The idea of this view is to iterate over all the documents saved in the database (In-memory HSQL), and display
them one by one. But how are you going to accomplish this? Well, first you need to add some dependencies to the
build.gradle file. Listing 10-7 shows you how to do that.
Listing 10-7. build.gradle
apply plugin: 'jetty'
//... more configuration options
dependencies {
//... more dependencies
compile 'org.springframework:spring-webmvc:4.0.5.RELEASE'
runtime 'jstl:jstl:1.2'
}
//... more dependencies
Running this application as a web application will require a web container. In your case, you will use Jetty, a
light container. The definition is in Listing 10-7: apply plugin: 'jetty'. Also, you are going to require a JSTL (Java
Standard Tag Library) runtime that will help you to add logic embedded in your page and in this case to iterate
through the list returned by the controller. Of course, you need to have the Spring Web MVC extension dependency at
compile time.
Now if you run as gradle :ch10:jettyRun, you should get the following output:
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10:35:26.324 [main] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Published WebApplicationContext of
servlet 'mydocuments' as ServletContext attribute with name [org.springframework.web.servlet.
FrameworkServlet.CONTEXT.mydocuments]
10:35:26.325 [main] INFO o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'mydocuments':
initialization completed in 3881 ms
10:35:26.325 [main] DEBUG o.s.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Servlet 'mydocuments' configured
successfully
> Building 80% > :ch10:jettyRun > Running at http://localhost:8080/ch10
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