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Presentation layer and the Spring Framework
We can use the Spring Web model view controller (MVC) framework and the Spring Framework Portlet MVC framework with WAS.
Web MVC framework
WAS supports the use of the Spring Web MVC framework.
There are also Web MVC frameworks that are provided with WAS, such as JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Apache Struts, which have IBM product support. For information about how to integrate Spring with these Web MVC frameworks, see the Spring documentation.
Portlet MVC framework
The Spring Framework Portlet MVC framework can run in the portlet container in WAS v6.1 and later.
To run portlets in the portlet container, create an additional web application to define the layout and aggregation of the portlets.
For details about how to use the portlet aggregator tag library, see the related topics.
JavaServer Faces
Portlet container
Portlet aggregation using JSP
Spring Framework
Apache Struts
Introducing the portlet container
Spring Documentation
Concept topic