Spring MVC Form Example

Here, we will learn how to handle a form data in spring MVC without using database. Here, we will use @Controler, @RequestMapping and @ModelAttribute annotations.

To display the input form, we are going to use <form:form> tag of spring framework. Let's see a simple example to store form data in a model object and display data of a list.

Required Jar files

To run this example, you need to load:

Spring Core jar files
Spring Web jar files

download all the jar files for spring including core, web, aop, mvc, j2ee, remoting, oxm, jdbc, orm etc.

index.jsp

<a href="empform">Add Employee</a>
<a href="viewemp">View Employees</a>

Emp.java

package com.javatpoint.beans;
public class Emp {
private int id;
private String name;
private float salary;
private String designation;

public Emp() {}

public Emp(int id, String name, float salary, String designation) {
	super();
	this.id = id;
	this.name = name;
	this.salary = salary;
	this.designation = designation;
}

public int getId() {
	return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
	this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
	return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
	this.name = name;
}
public float getSalary() {
	return salary;
}
public void setSalary(float salary) {
	this.salary = salary;
}
public String getDesignation() {
	return designation;
}
public void setDesignation(String designation) {
	this.designation = designation;
}

}

EmpController.java

package com.javatpoint.controllers;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import com.javatpoint.beans.Emp;
@Controller
public class EmpController {

	@RequestMapping("/empform")
	public ModelAndView showform(){
         //command is a reserved request attribute name, now use <form> tag to show object data
		return new ModelAndView("empform","command",new Emp());
	}
	@RequestMapping(value="/save",method = RequestMethod.POST)
	public ModelAndView save(@ModelAttribute("emp") Emp emp){
		//write code to save emp object
		//here, we are displaying emp object to prove emp has data
		System.out.println(emp.getName()+" "+emp.getSalary()+" "+emp.getDesignation());
		
		//return new ModelAndView("empform","command",emp);//will display object data
		return new ModelAndView("redirect:/viewemp");//will redirect to viewemp request mapping
	}
	
	@RequestMapping("/viewemp")
	public ModelAndView viewemp(){
		//write the code to get all employees from DAO
		//here, we are writing manual code of list for easy understanding
		List<Emp> list=new ArrayList<Emp>();
		list.add(new Emp(1,"rahul",35000f,"S.Engineer"));
		list.add(new Emp(2,"aditya",25000f,"IT Manager"));
		list.add(new Emp(3,"sachin",55000f,"Care Taker"));
		
		return new ModelAndView("viewemp","list",list);
	}
}

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" 
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
 <servlet>
	<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
	<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
	<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
	<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
	<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

spring-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"  
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"  
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"  
    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.javatpoint.controllers"></context:component-scan>

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"></property>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"></property>
</bean>

</beans>

empform.jsp

<%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>  
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>  

       <form:form method="post" action="save">  
      	<table >  
         <tr>  
          <td>Name : </td> 
          <td><form:input path="name"  /></td>
         </tr>  
         <tr>  
          <td>Salary :</td>  
          <td><form:input path="salary" /></td>
         </tr> 
         <tr>  
          <td>Designation :</td>  
          <td><form:input path="designation" /></td>
         </tr> 
         <tr>  
          <td colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Save" /></td>  
         </tr>  
        </table>  
       </form:form>  

viewemp.jsp

    <%@ taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="form"%>  
    <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>  


	<table border="2" width="70%" cellpadding="2">
	<tr><th>Id</th><th>Name</th><th>Salary</th><th>Designation</th></tr>
    <c:forEach var="emp" items="${list}"> 
    <tr>
    <td>${emp.id}</td>
    <td>${emp.name}</td>
    <td>${emp.salary}</td>
    <td>${emp.designation}</td>
    </tr>
    </c:forEach>
    </table>

Output

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