Spring MVC; avoiding file extension in url?

Question

I just started with Spring Web MVC. I\'m trying to avoid file extenstions in the url. How can i do this? (I\'m using Spring 2.5.x)

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Answer 1

In Spring 3.2 at least, the accepted answer above is very nearly but not quite what's needed. The web.xml bit below just worked for me, and I'm adding it to the thread here for reference of whoever googles this next...

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