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Spring MVC Web App Configuaration

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Below is the basic web.xml configuration. All Spring contexts in /WEB-INF/spring and end in *-context.xml will be loaded into one context. The default context file specific to the simple-form servlet is overridden to not load anything (/WEB-INF/simple-form-servlet.xml would have been loaded otherwise, the name of of the DispatcherServlet plus ‘-servlet.xml’). The servlet-mapping for ‘simple-form’ is configured to handle all requests ending in ‘.html’. The ‘encoding-filter’ sets all requests to the encoding type of UTF-8.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
         version="3.0" metadata-complete="true">
                             
    <display-name>simple-form</display-name>
    
    <listener>
        <listener-class>
            org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/spring/*-context.xml
        </param-value>
    </context-param>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>encoding-filter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>
            org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
        </filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>encoding-filter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>simple-form</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value></param-value>
        </init-param>
    </servlet>
    
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>simple-form</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>