Create a basic Spring 3 MVC Portlet for Websphere Portal - Part 1

Tutorial on creating a Spring 3 MVC portlet for IBM Websphere Portal 6.1 using Rational Application Developer 7.5. Spring MVC annotated controllers are used for the demonstration. The tutorial starts with nothing and ends with a simple portlet that gets published to the server and runs. Does not speak too much on the structure of Spring, just gets straight to producing working code. Code is available on Github here: https://github.com/seannewby/FirstSpringPortlet