Spring 5 Design Patterns

Defining a controller with @Controller

Let's create a controller class for our bank application. HomeController is a controller class that handles requests for / and renders the homepage of the bank application:

    package com.packt.patterninspring.chapter10.bankapp.web.controller; 
 
    import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; 
    import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; 
    import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod; 
 
    @Controller 
    public class HomeController { 
    
      @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET) 
      public String home (){ 
         return "home"; 
     } 
   } 

As you can see in the preceding code, the HomeController class contains the home() method. It is a handler method, because it is annotated with the