What we saw in the first chapter was nothing but a glimpse of Spring MVC. Our total focus was just to get a Spring MVC application running. Now it's time for us to deep dive into the Spring MVC architecture.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a clear understanding of:

• The Dispatcher servlet and request mapping
• Web application context and configuration
• Spring MVC request flow and Web MVC
• A typical Spring web application architecture