To create a form controller in Spring 2.0 have a look at this article Simple Form Controller
In Spring 3.0, its much simpler to create form controllers. There is no need to extend any class (like SimpleFormController) to create a controller in Spring.
Have a look at the following Spring controller.
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.validation.BindingResult;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
@Controller
@RequestMapping("usermanagement/newUser")
public class UserFController
{
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String onSubmit(User user, BindingResult result, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws Exception
{
// add code to insert the user record in to DB
return "redirect:/usermgmt/viewUser.htm";
}
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
protected User showForm(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception
{
return new User();
}
}
Since the controller is annotation based, add the following beans in Spring configuration file.