Spring MVC Annotation Getting Started Example

To configure annotation mapping use the below code in dispatcher-servlet.xml

<context:component-scan base-package="com.candidjava.springmvc"></context:component-scan>

Now annotate your controller with @Controller and @RequestMapping to map your url with controller

@RequestMapping(value = "/customer.htm")
@Controller

Also you can mention the request type is GET or POST using

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)

Complete Code

dispatcher-servlet.xml

<?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"
xsi:schemaLocation="
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/util 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd  
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
 
<context:component-scan base-package="com.candidjava.springmvc"></context:component-scan>
<!-- ************************************************************* --> 
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    
  <property name="prefix">		    
      <value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
  </property>	
    
    
  <property name="suffix">
   	<value>.jsp</value>
  </property>    
</bean>
</beans>

CustomerController.java

package com.candidjava.springmvc;
 
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
 
@RequestMapping(value = "/customer.htm")
@Controller
public class CustomerController
{
  @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
  public ModelAndView addCustomer(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  {
    ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("page");
 
    model.addObject("msg", "Action Page is Get..!");
 
    return model;
  }
 
  @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
  public ModelAndView editCustomer(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  {
    ModelAndView model = new ModelAndView("page");
 
    model.addObject("msg", "Action Page is Post..!");
 
    return model;
  }
 
}

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