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This tutorial demonstrates how to create a PDF view using Spring MVC and itext. Out of the box spring only supports the older com.lowagie:itext library. The newest com.itextpdf:itext library is not supported by default. But there is a work around, which we’ll show you in the following example.

Maven Dependencies

We manage our application using Apache Maven. Add the following dependencies to your pom.xml and maven will automatically manage and resolve the dependencies. Note: we added two dependencies for creating PDF documents. The first com.lowagie:itext is the older open source library, which is by default supported by Spring. The second library com.itextpdf:itext is not supported by default and you’ll need a licence to run this in production.

Spring MVC PDF View Configuration

The ServletInitializer is a replacement for the web.xml servlet descriptor. This class extends from the AbstractAnnotationConfigDispatcherServletInitializer. By overriding the getServletConfigClasses() we instruct where the spring configuration files are located.

Next, we show how to configure spring using Java Configuration. Annotate the class with @Configuration to mark this class as a configuration file. We can override the configureContentNegotiation(..) method and use the ContentNegotiationConfigurer to configure the content negotiation preferences.

The configureViewResolvers(..) method is where we register the views for our application. You can either enable the ItextPdfView() or the LowagiePdfView which we’ll create later on in this tutorial.

The equivalent Spring MVC XML Configuration is located below:

Creating the controller

The CourseController adds some data to the Model which we’ll display on the views.

Spring MVC PDF Lowagie View

The older com.lowagie:itext library is supported by default. Create a new class and extend from the AbstractPdfView. We can create the PDF Document using the buildPdfDocument(..) method.

Spring MVC PDF IText Example

The new com.itextpdf:itextpdf library is not supported by default. We can resolve this by first creating an abstract class and extending from the AbstractView. In this class we set the correct content type for our document. Next, we create an abstract method that’ll be used for creating the PDF document. Finally, we override and implement the renderMergedOutputModel(..) method that’ll write the pdf document to the response.

Create a new class and extend from the previously created AbstractItextPdfView and override the buildPdfDocument(..) method to create your PDF document.

HTML View

To demonstrate the content negotiation we also created a simple HTML view to display the courses attributes which we added to the Model.

Demo

URL: http://localhost:8081/spring-mvc-pdf/

URL: http://localhost:8081/spring-mvc-pdf/index.pdf

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