The Web Module
The web module is the module that enables you to write an web application using the spring-annotation almost without XML, to use it you just need to configure
the web.xml
Configuring your web.xml
Just add the following lines in your web.xml file:
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath*:applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/web/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
As you can see, except for the contextConfigLocation, it is a vanilla spring-mvc configuration, after that just follow the instruction of the base module
and add the following code to your applicationContext.xml or to your dispatcher-servlet.xml:
add the Spring-Annotation Schema to your spring XML file:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:sa="http://sannotations.sourceforge.net/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://sannotations.sourceforge.net/context http://sannotations.sourceforge.net/context.xsd">
and use the following code:
<import resource="classpath*:applicationContext.xml"/>
<sa:annotation-autoload />
Annotations
After you have configured your web.xml, you just need to use the web annotations in your beans as follows:
@UrlMapping
Configures the URL for this controller, must be used in a class that implements the Controller from the springMVC framework
@UrlMappings
Enables the configuration of more that one URL for the same controller
