Learn Spring for Android Application Development

Configuring Spring WebApplicationInitializer

A Spring WebApplicationInitializer uses a Servlet 3.0+ implementation to configure ServletContext programmatically.

Here's the sample code of the WebApplicationInitializer class, called MyApplicationInitializer.kt:

class MyApplicationInitializer: WebApplicationInitializer {    @Throws(ServletException::class)    override fun onStartup(container: ServletContext) {        val ctx = AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext()        ctx.servletContext = container                val servlet = container.addServlet("dispatcher", DispatcherServlet(ctx))        servlet.setLoadOnStartup(1)        servlet.addMapping("/")    }}

This class will help to map the project URL path, "\", using start. As we are using a code-based annotation in place of an XML configuration, ...