Using Springframework in Idea Intellij with Maven Build Tool

• Create a new Project from Scratch
• Select the Maven Module
• Maven allows a project to build using its project object model (POM) and a set of plugins that are shared by all projects using Maven, providing a uniform build system. Once you familiarize yourself with how one Maven project builds you automatically know how all Maven projects build saving you immense amounts of time when trying to navigate many projects.
• Add the following dependencies to your pom.xml
• <dependencies>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
              <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
              <version>1.4</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>com.google.collections</groupId>
              <artifactId>google-collections</artifactId>
              <version>1.0</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
              <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
              <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
              <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
              <version>3.0.5.RELEASE</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>cglib</groupId>
              <artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
              <version>2.2.2</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
              <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
              <version>1.5.3</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
              <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
              <version>2.0.0</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
              <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
              <version>1.2</version>
          </dependency>
          <dependency>
              <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
              <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
              <version>2.5</version>
          </dependency>
      </dependencies>
• Build configuration in pom.xml
• <build>

        <finalName>YourApplicationName</finalName>

        <plugins>

            <plugin>

                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>

                <configuration>

                    <source>1.6</source>

                    <target>1.6</target>

                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>

                </configuration>

            </plugin>

            <plugin>

                <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>

                <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId>

                <version>7.4.2.v20110526</version>

                <configuration>

                    <scanIntervalSeconds>1</scanIntervalSeconds>

                </configuration>

            </plugin>

        </plugins>

    </build>

• In the java package create a new package with your desired name and then add three more packages namely controllers, model and services
• In the main directory create a directory webapp and in it create two directories static and WEB-INF
• In the WEB-INF directory add a new directory 'jsp' and in it create a jsp file 
• Also the WEB-INF Directory should have two more files dispatcher-servlet.xml and web.xml 
• 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-3.0.xsd

        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context

        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd

        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc

        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

    <mvc:annotation-driven/>

    <context:component-scan base-package="SampleApp"/>

    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

        <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>

        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>

        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>

    </bean>

</beans>

• web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

         xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"

         xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"

         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"

         id="WebApp_ID"

         version="2.5">

    <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/static/*</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

    <servlet>

        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>

        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

After doing the same, just compile your code using Maven and run the Jetty server whose dependency was added in the pom.xml file. Here is the link to the public repository for the same: https://github.com/gauravmunjal/HelloWorldSpring