Spring MVC mapping[From Spring MVC Beginner's Guide]

In a Spring MVC application, the URL can logically be divided into five parts (see the following figure); the @RequestMapping annotation only matches against the URL request path. It omits the scheme, hostname, application name, and so on.

The @RequestMapping annotation has one more attribute called method to further narrow down the mapping based on the HTTP request method types (GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, and TRACE). If we do not specify the method attribute in the @RequestMapping annotation, the default method will be GET.

The logical parts of a typical Spring MVC application URL