Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Creating a controller

Now, let's create a controller class to map the /home request, as follows:

package com.packt.springhighperformance.ch4.controller;import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;@Controllerpublic class BankController {  @RequestMapping(value = "/home")  public String home() {    return "home";  }}

In the preceding code, @Controller defines a Spring MVC controller that contains request mappings. The @RequestMapping(value = "home") object defines a mapping URL, /home, to a method, home(). So, when the browser hits a /home request, it executes the home() method.