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Asked: 2026-06-13T03:43:42+00:00

I am new to Spring and was trying to setup a basic Web App

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I am new to Spring and was trying to setup a basic Web App using the Spring Framework. But I am facing an issue where the message variables are not being passed to the view — the jsp doesn’t show the messages.

Following is my code –

Controller.java

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller

public class HomeController {
        @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET, value="/")
    public String index(){
        ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView();
        mav.setViewName("index");
        String message = new String("Hello Welcome - Please click to login");
        System.out.println(message);
        mav.addObject("message", message);
            return "index";
    }

index.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Login</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:url value="login" var="somevar" />
<h1>Click here to </h1> <a href= "${somevar}">${1+1}</a>  
 <c:out value="${message}"/>
</body>
</html>

The evaluation works all fine – but the string for the variable ‘message’s comes as empty.

Am I missing something? Any guidance would be much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your index() controller method is returning a String, rather than a ModelAndView object. Try:

    public ModelAndView index(ModelAndView mav){
    mav.setViewName("index");
    String message = new String("Hello Welcome - Please click to login");
    System.out.println(message);
    mav.addObject("message", message);
    return mav;
}
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