This is a great idea . However as a long time Spring user , could I ask that you spin this in to full blown tutorial . Heck I will pay for an ebook (<$15) which shows Client Side Coffeescript + client side MMVC+ some client side templating + client side state with Spring on the server side. Go slow and easy on the client side JS part -- after all you would be talking to Java guys ;-). You don't need to worry about server side xml -- that is natural for us Java guys.