From 3d6a16866e79f4c3cf848082e2a88db41fe94452 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haroon Khan <haroonkhan79@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:26:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [JAVA-8295] Split spring-mvc-xml module

---
 spring-web-modules/pom.xml                    |   3 +-
 .../spring-mvc-xml-2/.gitignore               |  13 +++
 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/README.md |  14 +++
 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/pom.xml   | 101 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java  |  17 +++
 .../baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java  |   3 +-
 .../ConstraintViolationExceptionHandler.java  |   0
 .../spring/nomapping/GreetingController.java  |  16 +++
 ...stAndPathVariableValidationController.java |  17 +--
 .../baeldung/spring/taglibrary}/Person.java   |   2 +-
 .../spring/taglibrary}/PersonController.java  |  17 ++-
 .../spring/taglibrary}/PersonValidator.java   |   3 +-
 .../src/main/resources/logback.xml            |  19 ++++
 .../src/main/resources/messages.properties    |   3 +
 .../src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml       |  40 +++++++
 .../src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml   |  12 +++
 .../src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/greeting.jsp |   9 ++
 .../main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp   |   0
 .../main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personView.jsp   |   0
 .../src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp   |   7 ++
 .../src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml           |  47 ++++++++
 .../src/main/webapp/index.jsp                 |  15 +++
 .../java/com/baeldung/SpringContextTest.java  |  19 ++++
 ...leValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java |  14 ++-
 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/README.md   |   4 +-
 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/pom.xml     |   5 -
 26 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/README.md
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/pom.xml
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml => spring-mvc-xml-2}/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java (96%)
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml => spring-mvc-xml-2}/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ConstraintViolationExceptionHandler.java (100%)
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/nomapping/GreetingController.java
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller => spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation}/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java (79%)
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/form => spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary}/Person.java (98%)
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller => spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary}/PersonController.java (95%)
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/validator => spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary}/PersonValidator.java (87%)
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/logback.xml
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/messages.properties
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/greeting.jsp
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml => spring-mvc-xml-2}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp (100%)
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml => spring-mvc-xml-2}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personView.jsp (100%)
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
 create mode 100644 spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SpringContextTest.java
 rename spring-web-modules/{spring-mvc-xml/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller => spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation}/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java (90%)

diff --git a/spring-web-modules/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/pom.xml
index 96aeb514a0..b84ea5a13a 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-web-modules/pom.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
         <module>spring-mvc-views</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-webflow</module>
         <module>spring-mvc-xml</module>
+        <module>spring-mvc-xml-2</module>
         <module>spring-rest-angular</module>
         <module>spring-rest-http</module>
         <module>spring-rest-http-2</module>
@@ -47,4 +48,4 @@
         <module>spring-web-url</module>
     </modules>
 
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/.gitignore b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..83c05e60c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+*.class
+
+#folders#
+/target
+/neoDb*
+/data
+/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
+*/META-INF/*
+
+# Packaged files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.ear
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/README.md b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..05a6172fa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+## Spring MVC XML
+
+This module contains articles about Spring MVC with XML configuration
+
+### The Course
+
+The "REST With Spring" Classes: http://bit.ly/restwithspring
+
+### Relevant Articles: 
+
+- [Exploring SpringMVC’s Form Tag Library](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-form-tags)
+- [Validating RequestParams and PathVariables in Spring](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-validate-requestparam-pathvariable)
+- [Debugging the Spring MVC 404 “No mapping found for HTTP request” Error](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-404-error)
+- More articles: [[<-- prev]](../spring-mvc-xml)
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e65259d512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <artifactId>spring-mvc-xml-2</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <name>spring-mvc-xml-2</name>
+    <packaging>war</packaging>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spring-web-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <!-- Spring -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <!-- web -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${javax.servlet-api.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
+            <version>${jstl.version}</version>
+            <scope>runtime</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.hibernate.validator</groupId>
+            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
+            <version>${hibernate-validator.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <!-- Json conversion -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
+            <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <!-- IO -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+            <version>${commons-io.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+            <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+            <version>${javax.el.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
+            <version>${spring-boot.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <build>
+        <finalName>spring-mvc-xml</finalName>
+        <resources>
+            <resource>
+                <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
+                <filtering>true</filtering>
+            </resource>
+        </resources>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${maven-war-plugin.version}</version>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+
+    <properties>
+        <org.springframework.version>5.0.2.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
+        <spring-boot.version>1.5.10.RELEASE</spring-boot.version>
+        <mysql-connector-java.version>5.1.40</mysql-connector-java.version>
+        <httpcore.version>4.4.5</httpcore.version>
+        <httpclient.version>4.5.2</httpclient.version>
+        <hibernate-validator.version>6.0.10.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
+        <javax.el.version>3.0.1-b08</javax.el.version>
+        <guava.version>19.0</guava.version>
+        <cargo-maven2-plugin.version>1.6.1</cargo-maven2-plugin.version>
+    </properties>
+
+</project>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a464717f5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package com.baeldung.spring;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurer;
+
+@ImportResource("classpath:webMvcConfig.xml")
+@Configuration
+@ComponentScan
+public class ClientWebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
+
+    public ClientWebConfig() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java
similarity index 96%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java
index 09c34ccc80..dc8db43e41 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/ClientWebConfigJava.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import java.util.ResourceBundle;
 import org.springframework.context.MessageSource;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.context.support.MessageSourceResourceBundle;
 import org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource;
 import org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.MethodValidationPostProcessor;
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ public class ClientWebConfigJava implements WebMvcConfigurer {
 
         return bean;
     }
-    
+
     @Bean
     public MethodValidationPostProcessor methodValidationPostProcessor() {
         return new MethodValidationPostProcessor();
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ConstraintViolationExceptionHandler.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ConstraintViolationExceptionHandler.java
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ConstraintViolationExceptionHandler.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/ConstraintViolationExceptionHandler.java
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/nomapping/GreetingController.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/nomapping/GreetingController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5016113d30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/nomapping/GreetingController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package com.baeldung.spring.nomapping;
+
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
+
+@Controller
+public class GreetingController {
+
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/greeting", method = RequestMethod.GET)
+    public String get(ModelMap model) {
+        model.addAttribute("message", "Hello, World!");
+        return "greeting";
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java
similarity index 79%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java
index b77598c113..4768237871 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation/RequestAndPathVariableValidationController.java
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
-package com.baeldung.spring.controller;
+package com.baeldung.spring.paramsvalidation;
 
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
 import org.springframework.validation.annotation.Validated;
-import javax.validation.constraints.*;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
+
+import javax.validation.constraints.Max;
+import javax.validation.constraints.Min;
+import javax.validation.constraints.NotBlank;
+import javax.validation.constraints.Pattern;
+import javax.validation.constraints.Size;
 
 @Controller
 @RequestMapping("/public/api/1")
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/form/Person.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/Person.java
similarity index 98%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/form/Person.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/Person.java
index 307a36b10f..ed2fa903ef 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/form/Person.java
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/Person.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package com.baeldung.spring.form;
+package com.baeldung.spring.taglibrary;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/PersonController.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/PersonController.java
similarity index 95%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/PersonController.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/PersonController.java
index 71d9ad7845..0fcb66f2dd 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/PersonController.java
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/PersonController.java
@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
-package com.baeldung.spring.controller;
+package com.baeldung.spring.taglibrary;
 
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import javax.validation.Valid;
-
-import com.baeldung.spring.form.Person;
-import com.baeldung.spring.validator.PersonValidator;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
 import org.springframework.ui.Model;
@@ -19,6 +10,12 @@ import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
 
+import javax.validation.Valid;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 @Controller
 public class PersonController {
 
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/validator/PersonValidator.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/PersonValidator.java
similarity index 87%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/validator/PersonValidator.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/PersonValidator.java
index cda756cdfc..9f437429ae 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/validator/PersonValidator.java
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/taglibrary/PersonValidator.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-package com.baeldung.spring.validator;
+package com.baeldung.spring.taglibrary;
 
-import com.baeldung.spring.form.Person;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 import org.springframework.validation.Errors;
 import org.springframework.validation.ValidationUtils;
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/logback.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56af2d397e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/logback.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n
+            </pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
+
+    <logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" />
+    <logger name="org.springframework.transaction" level="WARN" />
+
+    <!-- in order to debug some marshalling issues, this needs to be TRACE -->
+    <logger name="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc" level="WARN" />
+
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+    </root>
+</configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/messages.properties b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/messages.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a58f51db3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/messages.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+required.name = Name is required!
+NotEmpty.person.password = Password is required!
+
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5dcdef6ad4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/resources/webMvcConfig.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<?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"
+>
+
+    <mvc:annotation-driven>
+        <mvc:message-converters>
+            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter">
+                <property name="supportedMediaTypes">
+                    <list>
+                        <value>image/jpeg</value>
+                        <value>image/png</value>
+                    </list>
+                </property>
+            </bean>
+        </mvc:message-converters>
+    </mvc:annotation-driven>
+
+    <context:component-scan base-package="com.baeldung.spring"/>
+
+    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
+        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/view/"/>
+        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
+    </bean>
+
+    <mvc:view-controller path="/sample.html" view-name="sample"/>
+
+    <bean class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource" id="messageSource">
+        <property name="basename" value="messages" />
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="validationProcessor" class="org.springframework.validation.beanvalidation.MethodValidationPostProcessor" />
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e27665da95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/mvc-servlet.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
+       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.3.xsd
+               http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.3.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
+
+
+    <context:component-scan base-package="com.baeldung.spring"/>
+
+</beans>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/greeting.jsp b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/greeting.jsp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ac17c75ab7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/greeting.jsp
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>Greeting</title>
+</head>
+    <body>
+        <h2>${message}</h2>
+    </body>
+</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personForm.jsp
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personView.jsp b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personView.jsp
similarity index 100%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personView.jsp
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/personView.jsp
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7cc14b5dcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<html>
+<head></head>
+
+<body>
+	<h1>This is the body of the sample view</h1>
+</body>
+</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e704d2eba3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
+	version="3.1"
+>
+    <display-name>Spring MVC XML Application</display-name>
+
+    <!-- Spring root -->
+    <context-param>
+        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
+        <param-value>
+        	org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
+      	</param-value>
+    </context-param>
+    <context-param>
+        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
+        <param-value>com.baeldung.spring</param-value>
+    </context-param>
+
+    <listener>
+        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
+    </listener>
+
+    <!-- Spring child -->
+    <servlet>
+        <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
+        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
+        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
+    </servlet>
+    <servlet-mapping>
+        <servlet-name>mvc</servlet-name>
+        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
+    </servlet-mapping>
+
+    <!-- additional config -->
+    <session-config>
+        <session-timeout>10</session-timeout>
+    </session-config>
+    <welcome-file-list>
+        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
+    </welcome-file-list>
+
+    <error-page>
+        <location>/errors</location>
+    </error-page>
+</web-app>
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/index.jsp b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14872cf3ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/main/webapp/index.jsp
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
+	pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
+"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+<html>
+<head>
+<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
+<title>Spring MVC Examples</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+	<h1>Spring MVC Examples</h1>
+</body>
+
+</html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SpringContextTest.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SpringContextTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..62e34859ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/SpringContextTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+import org.springframework.test.context.web.WebAppConfiguration;
+
+import com.baeldung.spring.ClientWebConfig;
+
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration(classes = ClientWebConfig.class)
+@WebAppConfiguration
+public class SpringContextTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenSpringContextIsBootstrapped_thenNoExceptions() {
+    }
+}
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java
similarity index 90%
rename from spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java
rename to spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java
index c4332dd879..a71a024e62 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/controller/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml-2/src/test/java/com/baeldung/spring/paramsvalidation/RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-package com.baeldung.spring.controller;
+package com.baeldung.spring.paramsvalidation;
 
+import com.baeldung.spring.ClientWebConfigJava;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -11,9 +12,6 @@ import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;
 import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.setup.MockMvcBuilders;
 import org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext;
 
-import com.baeldung.spring.ClientWebConfig;
-import com.baeldung.spring.ClientWebConfigJava;
-
 import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
 import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.status;
 
@@ -35,13 +33,13 @@ public class RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest {
     @Test
     public void getNameOfDayByNumberRequestParam_whenGetWithProperRequestParam_thenReturn200() throws Exception {
         mockMvc.perform(get("/public/api/1/name-for-day").param("dayOfWeek", Integer.toString(5)))
-               .andExpect(status().isOk());
+          .andExpect(status().isOk());
     }
 
     @Test
     public void getNameOfDayByNumberRequestParam_whenGetWithRequestParamOutOfRange_thenReturn400() throws Exception {
         mockMvc.perform(get("/public/api/1/name-for-day").param("dayOfWeek", Integer.toString(15)))
-               .andExpect(status().isBadRequest());
+          .andExpect(status().isBadRequest());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -52,7 +50,7 @@ public class RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest {
     @Test
     public void getNameOfDayByPathVariable_whenGetWithRequestParamOutOfRange_thenReturn400() throws Exception {
         mockMvc.perform(get("/public/api/1/name-for-day/{dayOfWeek}", Integer.toString(15)))
-               .andExpect(status().isBadRequest());
+          .andExpect(status().isBadRequest());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -63,7 +61,7 @@ public class RequestAndPathVariableValidationControllerIntegrationTest {
     @Test
     public void validStringRequestParam_whenGetWithTooLongRequestParam_thenReturn400() throws Exception {
         mockMvc.perform(get("/public/api/1/valid-name").param("name", "asdfghjklqw"))
-               .andExpect(status().isBadRequest());
+          .andExpect(status().isBadRequest());
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/README.md b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/README.md
index 3fbea3626b..3260d91d94 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/README.md
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/README.md
@@ -12,12 +12,10 @@ The "REST With Spring" Classes: http://bit.ly/restwithspring
 - [Returning Image/Media Data with Spring MVC](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-image-media-data)
 - [Geolocation by IP in Java](https://www.baeldung.com/geolocation-by-ip-with-maxmind)
 - [Guide to JavaServer Pages (JSP)](https://www.baeldung.com/jsp)
-- [Exploring SpringMVC’s Form Tag Library](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-form-tags)
 - [web.xml vs Initializer with Spring](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-xml-vs-java-config)
 - [A Java Web Application Without a web.xml](https://www.baeldung.com/java-web-app-without-web-xml)
-- [Validating RequestParams and PathVariables in Spring](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-validate-requestparam-pathvariable)
-- [Debugging the Spring MVC 404 “No mapping found for HTTP request” Error](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-mvc-404-error)
 - [Introduction to Servlets and Servlet Containers](https://www.baeldung.com/java-servlets-containers-intro)
+- More articles: [[more -->]](../spring-mvc-xml-2)
 
 ## Spring MVC with XML Configuration Example Project
 
diff --git a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/pom.xml b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/pom.xml
index e67052e0cd..c814787ba7 100644
--- a/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-xml/pom.xml
@@ -39,11 +39,6 @@
             <version>${jstl.version}</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.hibernate.validator</groupId>
-            <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
-            <version>${hibernate-validator.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <!-- Json conversion -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>