Question

Everywhere I look always the same explanation pop ups.
Configure the view resolver.

<bean id='viewMappings'       class='org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver'>     <property name='basename' value='views' /> </bean> 

And then put a file in the classpath named view.properties with some key-value pairs (don’t mind the names).

logout.class=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView logout.url=WEB-INF/jsp/logout.jsp 

What does logout.class and logout.url mean?
How does ResourceBundleViewResolver uses the key-value pairs in the file?
My goal is that when someone enters the URI myserver/myapp/logout.htm the file logout.jsp gets served.

Answer 1

ResourceBundleViewResolver uses the key/vals in views.properties to create view beans (actually created in an internal application context). The name of the view bean in your example will be ‘logout’ and it will be a bean of type JstlView. JstlView has an attribute called URL which will be set to ‘WEB-INF/jsp/logout.jsp’. You can set any attribute on the view class in a similar way.

What you appear to be missing is your controller/handler layer. If you want /myapp/logout.htm to serve logout.jsp, you must map a Controller into /myapp/logout.htm and that Controller needs to return the view name ‘logout’. The ResourceBundleViewResolver will then be consulted for a bean of that name, and return your instance of JstlView.