Spring MVC

After we have the Servlet 3 version, we have the option to ignore the web.xml file in our java based web application. Similarly, Spring gives us the option to ignore its XML based configuration in new releases. So, you can create the Spring MVC application without having any xml file in it. See the Example.

Here the java code to create the Web application initializer. Implementation of WebApplicationInitializer interface gives the provision to provide the configuration that would have in web.xml file

Here is the example for the POM file which could be used to create the Spring MVC project with Hibernate.

Spring MVC demo without using xml based configurations

Here is the example which explains how the Spring and Hibernate work together in a web application which is developed using the Spring MVC. 

First, we need to create the Spring MVC project. For this, we will start from configuring the web.xml file as following: