Spring 3.0: Handler mapping issue - spring-mvc

Question

I am having a trouble mapping a specific URL request to one of the controllers in my project.
the URL is : http://HOSTNAME/api/v1/profiles.json
the war which is deployed is: api.war
the error I get is the following:
[PageNotFound] No mapping found for
HTTP request with URI
[/api/v1/profiles.json] in
DispatcherServlet with name 'action'
The configuration I have is the following: web.xml :
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml,/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Cache Control filter -->
<filter>
<filter-name>cacheControlFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<!-- Cache Control filter mapping -->
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>cacheControlFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Spring security filter -->
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<!-- Spring security filter mapping -->
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Spring listener -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Spring Controller -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/v1/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The action-servlet.xml:
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<bean id="contentNegotiatingViewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ContentNegotiatingViewResolver">
<property name="favorPathExtension" value="true" />
<property name="favorParameter" value="true" />
<!--
default media format parameter name is 'format'
-->
<property name="ignoreAcceptHeader" value="false" />
<property name="order" value="1" />
<property name="mediaTypes">
<map>
<entry key="html" value="text/html"/>
<entry key="json" value="application/json" />
<entry key="xml" value="application/xml" />
</map>
</property>
<property name="viewResolvers">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
</bean>
</list>
</property>
<property name="defaultViews">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.xml.MarshallingView">
<constructor-arg>
<bean class="org.springframework.oxm.xstream.XStreamMarshaller" />
</constructor-arg>
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
the application context security:
<sec:http auto-config='true' >
<sec:intercept-url pattern="/login.*" filters="none"/>
<sec:intercept-url pattern="/oauth/**" access="ROLE_USER" />
<sec:intercept-url pattern="/v1/**" access="ROLE_USER" />
<sec:intercept-url pattern="/request_token_authorized.jsp" access="ROLE_USER" />
<sec:intercept-url pattern="/**" access="ROLE_USER"/>
<sec:form-login authentication-failure-url ="/login.html"
default-target-url ="/login.html"
login-page ="/login.html"
login-processing-url ="/login.html" />
<sec:logout logout-success-url="/index.html" logout-url="/logout.html" />
</sec:http>
the controller:
#Controller
public class ProfilesController {
#RequestMapping(value = {"/v1/profiles"}, method = {RequestMethod.GET,RequestMethod.POST})
public void getProfilesList(#ModelAttribute("response") Response response) {
....
}
}
the request never reaches this controller.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Annotations don't do anything until they are processed. You will need
<context:component-scan base-package="path.to.controllers"/>
as a child of your root "beans" tag in order to get Spring to scan for controllers. Spring will scan for controllers in the base-package and it's descendants.
This tags requires
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
and
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"
in your root "beans" tag.