** Sample Spring Web Application
This application uses following dependencies
- javax.servlet-api (provided) as it will be a war deployed in Tomcat container
- spring-context
- spring-webmvc
We have used spring 4.1.5.RELEASE
Other features in this package include
- Annotation based AppConfig
- Annotation based ServletInitializer
- Annotation based Controller
We have used maven-war-plugin to create the war ti be deployed in Tomcat
With Tomcat 7, we can create symlinks to folders outside webapps and it will be refreshed automatically with change
sudo ln -s ~/architecture/springwebapp/target/springwebapp.war /Library/Tomcat/webapps/springwebapp.war
!/Library/Tomcat master!» sudo ./bin/catalina.sh run