Question

I am using spring mvc with freetemplate.

In asp.net, you can write straight to the browser using Response.Write(“hello, world”);

Can you do this in spring mvc?

Answer 1

You can either:

• get the HttpServletResponse and print to its Writer or OutputStream (depending on whether you want to send textual or binary data)

  @RequestMapping(value = "/something")
  public void helloWorld(HttpServletResponse response)  {
    response.getWriter().println("Hello World")
  }
  

• Use @ResponseBody:

  @RequestMapping(value = "/something")
  @ResponseBody
  public String helloWorld()  {
    return "Hello World";
  }
  

Thus your Hello World text will be written to the response stream.