Spring - Page Redirection Example



The following example show how to write a simple web-based application which makes use of redirect to transfer a http request to another page. To start with, let us have a working Eclipse IDE in place and take the following steps to develop a Dynamic Formbased Web Application using Spring Web Framework −

Step Description
1 Create a Dynamic Web Project with a name HelloWeb and create a package com.tutorialspoint under the src folder in the created project.
2 Drag and drop below mentioned Spring and other libraries into the folder WebContent/WEB-INF/lib.
3 Create a Java class WebController under the com.tutorialspoint package.
4 Create Spring configuration files Web.xml and HelloWeb-servlet.xml under the WebContent/WEB-INF folder.
5 Create a sub-folder with a name jsp under the WebContent/WEB-INF folder. Create view files index.jsp and final.jsp under this sub-folder.
6 The final step is to create the content of all the source and configuration files and export the application as explained below.

Here is the content of WebController.java file

package com.tutorialspoint;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;

@Controller
public class WebController {
   @RequestMapping(value = "/index", method = RequestMethod.GET)
   public String index() {
      return "index";
   }
   @RequestMapping(value = "/redirect", method = RequestMethod.GET)
   public String redirect() {
      return "redirect:finalPage";
   }
   @RequestMapping(value = "/finalPage", method = RequestMethod.GET)
   public String finalPage() {
      return "final";
   }
}

Following is the content of Spring Web configuration file web.xml

<web-app id = "WebApp_ID" version = "2.4"
   xmlns = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
   http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
 
   <display-name>Spring Page Redirection</display-name>
 
   <servlet>
      <servlet-name>HelloWeb</servlet-name>
      <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
      <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
   </servlet>
   
   <servlet-mapping>
      <servlet-name>HelloWeb</servlet-name>
      <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
  
</web-app>

Following is the content of another Spring Web configuration file HelloWeb-servlet.xml

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:context = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
   <context:component-scan base-package = "com.tutorialspoint" />
     
   <bean id = "viewResolver" 
      class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
   
      <property name = "prefix" value = "/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
      <property name = "suffix" value=".jsp" />
   </bean>
   
</beans>

Following is the content of Spring view file index.jsp. This will be a landing page, this page will send a request to access redirect service method which will redirect this request to another service method and finally a final.jsp page will be displauyed.

<%@taglib uri = "http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix = "form"%>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Spring Page Redirection</title>
   </head>

   <body>
      <h2>Spring Page Redirection</h2>
      <p>Click below button to redirect the result to new page</p>
      
      <form:form method = "GET" action = "/HelloWeb/redirect">
         <table>
            <tr>
               <td>
                  <input type = "submit" value = "Redirect Page"/>
               </td>
            </tr>
         </table>  
      </form:form>
   </body>
   
</html>

Following is the content of Spring view file final.jsp. This is the final redirected page.

<%@taglib uri = "http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix = "form"%>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Spring Page Redirection</title>
   </head>

   <body>
      <h2>Redirected Page</h2>
   </body>
</html>

Finally, following is the list of Spring and other libraries to be included in your web application. You simply drag these files and drop them in WebContent/WEB-INF/lib folder.

  • commons-logging-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.asm-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.beans-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.context-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.core-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.expression-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.web.servlet-x.y.z.jar
  • org.springframework.web-x.y.z.jar
  • spring-web.jar

Once you are done with creating source and configuration files, export your application. Right click on your application and use Export > WAR File option and save your HelloWeb.war file in Tomcat's webapps folder.

Now start your Tomcat server and make sure you are able to access other web pages from webapps folder using a standard browser. Try a URL http://localhost:8080/HelloWeb/index and you should see the following result if everything is fine with your Spring Web Application.

Spring Redirect Form

Click the "Redirect Page" button to submit the form and to get the final redirected page. You should see the following result if everything is fine with your Spring Web Application.

Spring Redirect Form Result
spring_web_mvc_framework.htm
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