Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5

Configuring front controller

To configure the front controller servlet, DispatcherServlet, in an XML-based configuration, we need to add the following XML code in the web.xml file:

  <servlet>    <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>    <servlet-class>      org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet    </servlet-class>    <init-param>      <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>      <param-value>/WEB-INF/spring-mvc-context.xml</param-value>    </init-param>    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>  </servlet>  <servlet-mapping>    <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>  </servlet-mapping>

In the preceding XML code, at first, we configured the DispatcherServlet. Then, we mentioned the context configuration location, /WEB-INF/spring-mvc-context.xml ...