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)

Bean:

<bean name="/hello.htm" class="springapp.web.HelloController"/>

I want it to be:

<bean name="/hello" class="springapp.web.HelloController"/>

I cannot get it to work. Any ideas?

Edit:

Url-mapping

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

I have tried changing the url-pattern with no luck (* and /*).

Did you get an answer to this question? I am using spring 3.2 — Konza, Jan 21 '13 at 07:08

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '10 at 04:02

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In 3.0, / seems to work. That is...

<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>

answered Apr 19 '10 at 04:02

ecdragon

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score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '09 at 15:32

As far as I know you can't do this if you're using JSP's as your view for controllers.

Because when you pass a model to a JSP, Spring MVC internally performs a 'forward' to the URL of the JSP. If you use <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> then this forward will also be handled by your DispatcherServlet and not by your JSP view.

What you can do is use <url-pattern>/something</url-pattern> and have your JSP's in a different directory

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '09 at 13:24

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<servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Then you need to register your urls to be handled by a particular controller. See the following

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/reference/mvc.html

answered Sep 09 '09 at 13:24

Paul Whelan

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Thanks, I'll have a look at that. I'm using Spring 2.5.x, but I guess it's quite the same. http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/mvc.html – Ezombort Sep 09 '09 at 14:03
Check out answers below - `/` works fine. – Tomasz Kalkosiński Jul 23 '13 at 12:06

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 29 '13 at 00:24

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...

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 09 '09 at 15:04

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Try first:

<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

If that doesn't work then problem is somewhere else. Is your Apache set up to forward those urls to Tomcat? Something like:

JkMount /hello worker1

answered Sep 09 '09 at 15:04

serg

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That worked, thanks. Do you have any idèas why the general url-patterns won't work? – Ezombort Sep 10 '09 at 05:47

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 09 '09 at 12:55

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Have you tried <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> in the servlet mapping and <bean name="/hello" .../> ?

answered Sep 09 '09 at 12:55

Michael Lloyd Lee mlk

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