What is causing the mapping failure in this Spring MVC app? - spring-mvc

Question

I'm trying to get a very simple Spring #mvc app to work and I'm running into what appears to be a mapping error.
From web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>works</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>works</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The controller:
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/test")
public class TESTController {
private static Logger appLogger = Logger.getLogger("AppLogFile");
public String serviceRequest( Model model)
{
appLogger.info("======================= TESTController GET ===============================");
model.addAttribute("returnString","TESTController handled the request") ;
return "SingleStringView";
}
works-servlet.xml:
<context:component-scan base-package="com.ami.dbconnect.controller" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/>
<bean id="TESTController" class="com.ami.dbconnect.controller.TESTController"></bean>
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The app is deployed to Tomcat 7 at /webapps/works. The Tomcat file structure is:
webapps
/works
/WEB-INF
/classes
/lib
I'm trying to invoke the controller with the url: localhost:8080/works/test
In tomcat7-stdout I see:
1106 [pool-2-thread-1] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Published WebApplicationContext of servlet 'works' as ServletContext attribute with name [org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.CONTEXT.works]
1106 [pool-2-thread-1] INFO org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - FrameworkServlet 'works': initialization completed in 728 ms
1106 [pool-2-thread-1] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - Servlet 'works' configured successfully
14068 [http-apr-8080-exec-2] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet - DispatcherServlet with name 'works' processing GET request for [/works/test]
14071 [http-apr-8080-exec-2] WARN org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/works/test] in DispatcherServlet with name 'works'
So my question (finally!):
Is Spring not recognizing the annotations in the controller? If not, what could be wrong in this simple set up?
Thanks for any help or advice,
beeky

Answer 1

You need to move #RequestMapping annotation to your serviceRequest method.
#RequestMapping at class level may be used to specify common path prefix for all #RequestMapping-annotated of that class, but it doesn't take any effect without annotations at method level.

Answer 2

Maybe problem is in the servlet mapping section?
Try to change:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>works</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/works/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
And try again.