Hybrid XML-Annotation-based Controllers in Spring

fforw — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:59:54 +0000

When talking to people about the Spring MVC, it became increasingly clear to me that many are thrilled by the possibilities of using annotation based controllers but are somewhat put off by auto discovery / auto-injecting.

Luckily, it’s pretty easy to combine the power of annotation-based MVC Controller (extremely flexible controller methods, flexible binding and validation) and the advantages of externally declared beans: You continue to use the @Controller annotation, but you don’t use a directive.

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Hybrid XML-Annotation-based Controllers in Spring