Hi Spring Community,

I am quite new to Spring technology and wondering what is the ideal project setup (in eclipse or other IDE) for a vanilla web project with one relational db? My thoughts are:


  1. Model Project (com.company.project.model): Contains mainly Interfaces / simple Classes that define the object model of the a application. The project does not contain any Spring configuration / annotation.
  2. Service Project (com.company.project.service): Contains interface definitions and its implementation of services (probably comparable to session ejbs). For starting the project, one can use the "Simple Spring Utility Project" from the Spring template projects.
  3. Data Access Project (com.company.project.persistence): Contains interface definitions and its implementations of DAO classes. For starting the project, one can use the "Simple Spring Hibernate (or JPA) utility project" from the Spring template projects.
  4. Web Project (com.company.project.web): Contains JSPs, Controllers. For starting the project, one can use the "Spring MVC Project" from the Spring template projects.


Is this a good project structuring? Does it make sense to do a more fine-grained structuring (e.g. seperating the Interfaces of the persistence / service project in a projects, further separation of the data access project)? When using Spring Webflow, does it go in the standard Web Project or does it get a project of its own?

Thanks for any feedback
b8