Need some help on client side

[rotemya]

Hi!

I want to build an application which contains a basic menu (with, lets say 10 buttons), each button is a subject in my girlfriend's psychology course. when i click a button, i will be transfer to the specific subject's menu. (so i have 10 sub-menus like this).

In each sub menu, i can press buttons as well, but this time i wil get some sentences which i saved in mySql data base.

I know how to build the spring part (the controllers and service layer) and hibernate part (the domains and DAO layer),

My problem is, that i don't know if i should use html+css+java script in order to build the menus and configure the functionality and communication between the controller and the client, or maybe should i use Jsp+Jstl?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, i know this is quiet fundamental..