Where to put business logic in spring mvc framework?

java spring-mvc business-logic
Mark Vincent Osea picture Mark Vincent Osea · Aug 18, 2014 · Viewed 29.8k times · Source

I don't know where to put the business logic in spring mvc because I'm new to it. I have a clue on what to do but because of lack in knowledge in spring mvc, I don't know where to start. I would also like to ask if somebody knows where I can get a good tutorial on this or a complete sample of a spring mvc web application that has a business logic on it? Anyways, the business logic that I was talking about is all about database handling :)

Answer

Luiggi Mendoza picture Luiggi Mendoza · Aug 18, 2014

@Controller classes serve as C from MVC. Note that the real controller in Spring MVC is DispatcherServlet that will use the specific @Controller class to handle the URL request.

@Service classes should serve for your service layer. Here you should put your business logic.

@Repository classes should serve for your data access layer. Here you should put CRUD logic: insert, update, delete, select.

@Service, @Repository and your entity classes will be M from MVC. JSP and other view technologies(e.g. JSP, Thymeleaf etc.) will conform V from MVC.

@Controller classes should only have access to @Service classes through interfaces. Similar, @Service classes should only have access to other @Service classes and for a specific set of @Repository classes through interfaces.

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