title: Adding spring mvc to a spring java "desktop" application
body: <p>I have a Java desktop application which uses spring framework and I need to replace the Swing UI with a web front end. I understand that I will need to adapt many things to make things work with the MVC architecture.
  My concrete question is the following:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Will my application now have to run entirely in the application server?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate if anyone could point me to some documentation that goes through a similar process.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>