Spring 5.0 Cookbook

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Let us build a simple web application using the Spring MVC concept:

1. Open web.xml and register the main servlet handler of our Spring MVC application, which is org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.

<servlet> 
  <servlet-name>ch02</servlet-name> 
  <servlet-class> 
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet 
  </servlet-class> 
  <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> 
</servlet> 
<servlet-mapping> 
  <servlet-name>ch02</servlet-name> 
  <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern> 
</servlet-mapping> 

Be cautious with the <url-pattern> in web.xml because it is where DispatcherServlet picks the correct format for its request URLs. The pattern *.html means the main servlet will recognize all URL paths with a view extension of .html.

2. In the ...