Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

View resolvers

A view resolver helps the Dispatcher servlet to identify the views that have to be rendered as a response to a specific web request. Spring MVC provides various view resolver implementations to identify views and InternalResourceViewResolver is one such implementation:

@Bean 
public InternalResourceViewResolver getInternalResourceViewResolver() { 
    InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver(); 
    resolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class); 
    resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/"); 
    resolver.setSuffix(".jsp"); 
 
    return resolver; 
} 

Through the above bean definition is in the web application context configuration (WebApplicationContextConfig), we are instructing Spring MVC to create a bean for the class InternalResourceViewResolver ...