//ModelAttributeExampleController.java
package javabeat.net;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;

@Controller
public class ModelAttributeExampleController {
 @Autowired
 private UserDetails userDetails;
 @RequestMapping(value="/modelexample")
 public String getMethod(@ModelAttribute UserDetails userDetails){
 System.out.println("User Name : " + userDetails.getUserName());
 System.out.println("Email Id : " + userDetails.getEmailId());
 return "example";
 }

 //This method is invoked before the above method
 @ModelAttribute
 public UserDetails getAccount(@RequestParam String user, @RequestParam String emailId){
 System.out.println("User Value from Request Parameter : " + user);
 userDetails.setUserName(user);
 userDetails.setEmailId(emailId);
 return userDetails;
 }
}

//UserDetails.java
package javabeat.net;

public class UserDetails {
private String userName;
private String emailId;
public String getUserName() {
 return userName;
}
public void setUserName(String userName) {
 this.userName = userName;
}
public String getEmailId() {
 return emailId;
}
public void setEmailId(String emailId) {
 this.emailId = emailId;
}
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jms="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms 
 
 http://www.springframework.org/schema/jms/spring-jms-2.5.xsd">
 <context:component-scan base-package="org.spring.examples" />
 <bean id="userDetails" class="org.spring.examples.UserDetails"/>
</beans>