Question

I am developing a Spring/Spring MVC application where everything is working properly but I have some doubts about the application startup.

Right now, when Tomcat starts and the application starts I am receiving a render request on the “home” controller even I don’t access the site. It’s like it is done automatically. Is this correct? Can this be disabled and is there any reason why this is done by default?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I found out that when the defined DispatcherServlet is mapped to * like this:

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>WebDispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

You always get a request to your “home” controller that is mapped to /