Register converters and converterFactories with annotations in Spring 3

Question

First of all ... Im relatively new in Spring, I use spring 3.x and I DONT LIKE SPRING\'S XML CONFIGURATION FILES ... I dont want for every refactoring I do, to run into XML

Answer 1

With Spring MVC 3.2, you can create a conversion service class that extends the DefaultFormattingConversionService e.g

ApplicationConversionService.java

import org.springframework.format.support.DefaultFormattingConversionService;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component("conversionService")
public class ApplicationConversionService extends DefaultFormattingConversionService  { 

    public ApplicationConversionService(){
        //DefaultFormattingConversionService's default constructor
        //creates default formatters and converters
        super(); //no need for explicit super()?

        //add custom formatters and converters
        addConverter(new MyConverter());
    }

}

and specify it in the spring config e.g

dispatcher-servlet.xml