Question

I am following the spring MVC tutorial
and also reading this article on mvc design patterns
http://www.javaranch.com/journal/200603/frontman.html

Hence I am trying to make an app with like this, that make use of spring mvc structures and frontController design pattern.
1. frontController with the DispatcherServlet from spring, that redirect and handles requests
as setup by routing in the (servlet_name)-servlet.xml
2. setup some business logic objects that make up of Beans and TO classes.

some questions there
1. as the dispatchservlet only take one controller for one form action, does it mean i need to implement each action a controller? would there be some more elegant ways?
2. I would also need pointers with setting up a security filter for authentication for all pages

Answer 1

Don’t forget about a separate service layer.

1. as the dispatchservlet only take one controller for one form action,
   does it mean i need to implement each
   action a controller? would there be
   some more elegant ways?

You can associate an action with a Controller method, so if there are several actions that make sense to group into a single Controller you can feel free to do it. Check out the annotations in Spring 3.

2. I would also need pointers with setting up a security filter for
   authentication for all pages

You can do basic auth or, better yet, use Spring Security.