Building a Spring MVC Project using Maven and IntelliJ IDE 2018

(Although most of the content located on this blog is for the Adobe Experience Manager community, from time to time, I post content for the general Java community. This post is about how to set up a Spring MVC project using Maven and IntelliJ 2018)

This development article guides you through how to create a Spring MVC project by using Maven and IntelliJ IDE 2018. This article includes how to configure the Spring DispatcherServlet.

This article builds a base Spring MVC project by using a standard web application Maven Archetype. Then it includes Spring MVC dependencies into the POM file and configures Spring related XML files, such as WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml file.

Finally, the Spring MVC project is deployed to Tomcat. If you do not have TOMCAT installed, see http://tomcat.apache.org/. (This article uses Tomcat 8).
The following illustration shows the Spring MVC built in this article.

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