We saw the purpose of the first two tags that are specified within the web application context configuration file:
<mvc:annotation-driven /> <context:component-scan base-package="com.packt.webstore" />
Based on these tags, Spring creates the necessary beans to handle a web request and also creates beans for all the @Controller classes. However, to run a Spring MVC application successfully, Spring needs one more bean; this bean is called a view resolver.
A view resolver helps the dispatcher servlet identify the views that have to be rendered as the response for a specific web request. Spring MVC provides various view resolver implementations to identify views, and InternalResourceViewResolver is one such implementation. The final tag ...
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