Matt Raible presents two approaches to quickly creating web applications in Spring Live. This excerpt "is a tutorial on how to write a simple Spring web application using the Struts MVC framework for the front end, Spring for the middle-tier glue, and Hibernate for the back end. In Chapter 4, this application will be refactored to use the Spring MVC framework."

This book excerpt is from Spring Live by Matt Raible, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This chapter is posted with permission from SourceBeat.

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Matt Raible is currently authoring Spring Live and is a member of the J2EE 1.5 Expert Group. He blogs about J2EE and his experiences on both jroller.com and raibledesigns.com.