How to create a Spring mvc + gwt SPA application?

Question

Java

Good day! The next task is to create a spa application. In the requirements specification, use:
spring MVC (application framework),
gwt (UI)
I don’t understand what “application framework” means?
I googled on the request of spring and gwt integration, most of the examples are old, there are not so many of them, it is recommended to use some spring4web version 0.0.1 (!) Inside which is the only class that replaces DispatcherServlet. How to use such a link?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Frame - a skeleton?
Rather Spring IoC (core/context).
Used in conjunction with GWT to provide DI, meet SOLID requirements, connect to a database, etc.
It may be that the server-side should provide an API written in Spring MVC, and a GWT client SPA accessing the API via AJAX requests.
spring4gwt we use in one of the projects works flawlessly. I see no problem that this 1st class is not divided into libraries of different versions.
In general, in 2017, I would not opt ​​for GWT.