SPRING webmvc-config.xml what does mean the <mvc:view-controller - spring-mvc

Question

Please help me! I am modifiyng my spring mwc application. But I am not able to understand what does mean one tag in the webmvc-config.xml file . I mean why it is written common.index and not common/index ? In fact into the directory view/common there is the file index.jsp.

Answer 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.2.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- ================= MISC. ================= -->
<!-- Message properties -->
<bean id="messageSource"
class="org.springframework.context.support.ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basenames">
<list>
<value>classpath:library</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Declare the Interceptor -->
<mvc:interceptors>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor">
<property name="paramName" value="lang" />
</bean>
</mvc:interceptors>
<!-- Declare the Resolver -->
<bean id="localeResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver" />
<!-- Forwards requests to the "/" resource to the "home" view -->
<mvc:view-controller path="/" view-name="common.index" />
<mvc:view-controller path="/index.do" view-name="common.index" />
<mvc:view-controller path="/common/ok.do"
view-name="common.ok" />
<mvc:view-controller path="/common/welcome.do"
view-name="common.welcome" />
<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving
up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources/ directory -->
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<!-- ================= TILES ================= -->
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/spring/tiles-defs.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesViewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesViewResolver" />
<!-- ================= Upload Resolver (Roberto) ================= -->
<bean id="multipartResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver">
<!-- one of the properties available; the maximum file size in bytes (1 MB)-->
<property name="maxUploadSize" value="1048576" />
</bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="it.univaq.mwt.library.presentation" />
</beans>

Answer 2

From spring 3.0 documentation
This tag is a shorcut for defining a ParameterizableViewController
that immediately forwards to a view when invoked. Use it in static cases
when there is no Java Controller logic to execute before the view generates
the response