Spring MVC

Spring MVC Drop Down List Example

Last Updated: 25-05-2022 Springjava

In this example, we create a form for user input, a drop-down list and show user detail through the Spring MVC form tag.

<form:select path=" ">
<form:options items=" " />
</form:select>

This tag is provided by the Spring MVC form tag library for the drop-down list.

drop_down_list_spring_mvc_form_tag

Development Process:
1. Keep eclipse IDE ready
2. Project Structure
3. Add the jar file
4. Configure Spring DispacherServlet
5. Add configuration to file
6. Create View Page
7. Create Bean Class
8. Create Controller Class
9. Run the App

1. Keep eclipse IDE ready
2. Project Structure

3. Add the jar file

common-logging-<version>.jar
spring-aop-<version>.jar
spring-context-<version>.jar
spring-core-<version>.jar
spring-expression-<version>.jar
spring-web-<version>.jar
spring-webmvc-<version>.jar

4. Create View Page
home.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<body>
<a href="http://localhost:8080/spring_mvc_drop_down_list_demo/user/showForm">Click For User Form</a>
</body>
</html>

user-form.jsp:

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User Registration Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<form:form action="processForm" modelAttribute="user">
First name: <form:input path="firstName" />
<br>
<br>
Last name: <form:input path="lastName" />
<br>
<br>
Country: <form:select path="country">
<form:options items="${user.countryList}" />
</form:select>
<br>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form:form>
</body>
</html>

→ “country” is a bean class property name and “countryList” is a bean class property name of the User class.
user-detail.jsp:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>User Detail</title>
</head>
<body>User Detail: ${user.firstName} ${user.lastName}�
Country: ${user.country}
</body>
</html>

5. Configure Spring DispacherServlet
web.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_4.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID" version="4.0">

<display-name>spring-mvc-drop-down-list-demo</display-name>
<absolute-ordering />
<!-- Spring MVC Configs -->
<!--� Configure Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- Set up URL mapping for Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

→ This file is created in the WEB-INF directory of this application.

6. Add configuration to file
dispatcher-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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

<!-- Add support for component scanning -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.poc" />

<!-- Add support for conversion, formatting and validation support -->
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<!-- Define Spring MVC view resolver -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>

7. Create Bean Class
User.java:

�package com.poc.controller.bean;

import java.util.LinkedHashMap;

public class User {

private String firstName;

private String lastName;

private String country;

private LinkedHashMap<String, String> countryList;

public User() {

countryList=new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();

countryList.put("IN", "India");

countryList.put("DE", "Germany");

countryList.put("US", "USA");

}

public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;

}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

this.firstName = firstName;

}

public String getLastName() {

return lastName;

}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {

this.lastName = lastName;

}
public LinkedHashMap<String, String> getCountryList() {

return countryList;

}
public void setCountryList(LinkedHashMap<String, String> countryList) {

this.countryList = countryList;

}

public String getCountry() {

return country;

}

public void setCountry(String country) {

this.country = country;

}

}

8. Create Controller Class
HomeController.java:

package com.poc.controller;

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

@Controller
public class HomeController {

@RequestMapping("/")
public String showPage() {

return "home";
}
}

UserController.java:

package com.poc.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import com.poc.controller.bean.User;


@Controller
@RequestMapping("/user")
public class UserController{

@RequestMapping("/showForm")
public String showForm(Model theModel) {

// create a User object
User user=new User();

// add user created object to the model
theModel.addAttribute("user",user);

return "user-form";

}

@RequestMapping("/processForm")
public String processForm(@ModelAttribute("user") User user) {
return "user-detail";
}
}

9. Run the App