The purpose of this project is two-fold:

1. Provide an introduction (crash-course) to web applications developed with Java Technology and the Spring Framework.
2. Provide simple groundwork from which you can build your own custom web application. This isn't meant to be a fully featured tutorial on Spring but bare-bones example using Maven to get you playing with the technology quickly.

You can build this from the command line using 'mvn package' or you can load it quickly into the Java IDE of your choice (ie: Eclipse or NetBeans) and build it there. Once built, deploy it to a Java application container of your choice (I tested this with Apache Tomcat 7 but it should work easily on most of them.)

Once its deployed and your application container is running, just access the /simple-spring-webapp context from a browser. If you are running Tomcat, use http://localhost:8080/simple-spring-webapp to see the index page.

We are using a couple different technologies to make this happen but most of them are just there to accent the purpose.

Things you have to install:

• Java 6+ (Grab the JDK since you're technically developing now.)
• Maven 2.2.1+ (This is your build utility. Its what makes our web app package (.war).)

Things Maven will get for you:

• SLF4J (This is a logging API. Its nice for printing things to your output console.)
• JSTL (Java Server Pages - Standard tag library is used in the .jsp files to help generate html and urls.)
• Spring 3.0.7.RELEASE (Used for dependency injection and managing your web application.)