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>