Spring Web MVC Framework

Required Configuration

You need to map requests that you want the DispatcherServlet to handle, by using a URL mapping in the web.xml file. The following is an example to show declaration and mapping

for HelloWebDispatcherServlet example:

<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"> <display-name>Spring MVC Application</display-name> <servlet> <servlet-name>HelloWeb</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet </servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>HelloWeb</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>

The web.xml file will be kept WebContent/WEB-INF directory of your web application. OK, upon initialization of HelloWeb DispatcherServlet, the framework will try to load the application context from a file named [servlet-name]-servlet.xml located in the application's WebContent/WEB- INF directory. In this case our file will be HelloWeb-servlet.xml.