Spring-MVC Problem using @Controller on controller implementing an interface

Question

I\'m using spring 2.5 and annotations to configure my spring-mvc web context. Unfortunately, I am unable to get the following to work. I\'m not sure if this is a bug (seem

Answer 1

The true reason you need to use 'proxy-target-class="true"' is in DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping#determineUrlsForHandler() method: though it uses ListableBeanFactory#findAnnotationOnBean for looking up a @RequestMapping annotation (and this takes care about any proxy issues), the additional lookup for @Controller annotation is done using AnnotationUtils#findAnnotation (which does not handles proxy issues)