how to specify welcome-file-list in WebApplicationInitializer.onStartup()

Question

Currently I have a web application where we are using web.xml to configure the application. The web.xml has welcome-file-list.

  
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Answer 1

You can't

As specified in Java Doc

public interface WebApplicationInitializer

Interface to be implemented in Servlet 3.0+ environments in order to configure the ServletContext programmatically -- as opposed to (or possibly in conjunction with) the traditional web.xml-based approach.

but you still need minimal configuration in web.xml , such as for

        index.jsp