Question

I’ve got a controller set up in my web.xml:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/console/index</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

And a matching bean defined in controller-servlet.xml:

<bean name="/console/index" class="com.package.OverviewController"/>

Which works correctly – when I get “/appName/console/index” it behaves as I expect. But when I change web.xml to this:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>controller</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/console/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

It no longer functions, giving me the following exception:

WARN (org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound) - No mapping for [/appName/console/index] in DispatcherServlet with name 'controller' 

So my question is how do I use wildcards in the servlet mappings, so that different URLs all go through the single DispatcherServlet but may go to one of several controller beans?

FYI: I’m stuck on Spring 2.0, as it’s an established application used in government.

Answer 1

When you use wildcards in <url-pattern>, controller names by default correspond to wildcard part of the pattern.

So, you can either rename your controller to /index, or set the alwaysUseFullPath property of your HandlerMapping to true.