Controller for views in root
Yesterday while developping ukazbobra I realized, that I don’t know how to map controller for my index view in root of Spring MVC project. I searched and experimented a bit and here is a solution. Please note I’m using Spring Roo and annotation driven setup.
First thing is to create controller, for example simple one like this:
@RequestMapping("/") @Controller public class RootController { @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET) public String index(Model model) { model.addAttribute("foo", "bar"); return "index"; } . . .
Now you have to turn off thing named ParameterizableViewController, which staticaly selects a view for for rendering. So open up webmvc-config.xml and remove line with mapping for index view:
<mvc:view-controller path="/" view-name="index"/>
That is all, nothing more, nothing less – you have working controller for your index page in root and also for other views.