Spring 5.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

Perform the following to build a simple Spring MVC project using the JavaConfig specification:

1. Create the JavaConfig root context through implementing the abstract class org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter. It has the @Configuration annotation and contains methods that can be overridden to manage validators, view resolvers, controllers, interceptors, and other MVC-specific components needed to be injected to the container. Let us name the implementation class SpringDispatcherConfig and place it inside the org.packt.starter.ioc.dispatcher package:

@Configuration 
public class SpringDispatcherConfig extends 
         WebMvcConfigurerAdapter{ } 

2. Let us now configure the DispatcherServlet. The implementation ...