Spring MVC Request URLs in JSP

Question

I am writing a web application using Spring MVC. I am using annotations for the controllers, etc. Everything is working fine, except when it comes to actual links in the app

Answer 1

Since it's been some years I thought I'd chip in for others looking for this. If you are using annotations and have a controller action like this for instance:

@RequestMapping("/new")   //<--- relative url
public ModelAndView newConsultant() {
    ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("new_consultant");
    try {
        List list = ConsultantDAO.getConsultants();
        mv.addObject("consultants", list);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return mv;
}

in your .jsp (view) you add this directive

<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags" prefix="spring"%>

and simply use

New consultant

where

value's value should match @RequestMapping's argument in the controller action and

var's value is the name of the variable you use for href

HIH