RequestMapping in xml

Question

I am new to Spring MVC 3.0, I have a background of struts 2.0. I am comfortable with configuration in xml.

So, I am looking for a way to represent to @RequestMapping

Answer 1

This is a known issue with spring, the spring ticket is listed below. It also discusses the issue in good detail.

SPR-5757

Answer 2

Not only is this possible, it was the only way to do it pre-Spring 2.5. Rather bizarrely, pretty much all mention of this has been removed from the Spring ref manual, even though it's still a perfectly valid way of mapping your requests. The only mention of it I can stil lfind is section 15.4.1.

A simple example is:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
   <property name="mappings">
      <map>
         <entry key="/doSomething/**" value-ref="controllerA"/>
         <entry key="/other Thing/**" value-ref="controllerB"/>
      </map>
   </property>
</bean>