Spring 3.1 with No XML Not working

[loki70x7]

So I've setup a spring mvc 3.1 project from scratch and am not using any xml. Thing is my controllers are not getting registered. There are no errors what so ever its like the controller doesn't exist.

The index page loads when I run the application but when I try the url thats mapped nothing happens.
The console shows no errors and I have no build errors.

My Initializer class looks like this:

@Configuration
public class Initializer implements WebApplicationInitializer
{
public void onStartup(ServletContext container) throws ServletException
	{
		logger.info("Loading..");
		System.out.print("YALLO");
		AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext rootContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
		rootContext.register(AppConfig.class);
		
 
		// Manage the lifecycle of the root application context
		container.addListener(new ContextLoaderListener(rootContext));
 
		// Create the dispatcher servlet's Spring application context
		AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext dispatcherContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
		dispatcherContext.register(DispatcherConfig.class);
 
		// Register and map the dispatcher servlet
		ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = container.addServlet("dispatcher", new DispatcherServlet(dispatcherContext));
		dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);
		dispatcher.addMapping("/"); 
	}
}

My configuration class looks like this:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.yardy.controllers")
public class DispatcherConfig
{
	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DispatcherConfig.class);
	
	@Bean
	public InternalResourceViewResolver configureInternalResourceViewResolver()
	{
		logger.error("HELLO");
		InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
		resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/");
		resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
		return resolver;
	}
}

Controller looks like this:

package com.yardy.controllers;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

@Controller
public class YardyController
{
	 private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(YardyController.class);
	 
	 @RequestMapping(value = "/yardy")
	 public String yardy()
	 {
		 System.out.print("Testing..");
		logger.info("Welcome home!");
		System.out.print("YARDY");
		return "yardy";
	 }
}

/yardy just 404's thou.

Can anyone give me any insight into this.
Perhaps point out something I'm missing.

[Marten Deinum]

FOr starters @Configuration on the WebApplicationInitializer is useless. Also why do you map the controller to /yardy? That would lead to a url of /yardy/yardy to trigger the controller (as the servlet is mapped to /yardy). So either map the servlet to / or the controller to /... I strongly suggest a read of the reference guide especially the web part on how urls and url mappings work with @RequestMapping).

[loki70x7]

FOr starters @Configuration on the WebApplicationInitializer is useless. Also why do you map the controller to /yardy? That would lead to a url of /yardy/yardy to trigger the controller (as the servlet is mapped to /yardy). So either map the servlet to / or the controller to /... I strongly suggest a read of the reference guide especially the web part on how urls and url mappings work with @RequestMapping).

That was me twiddling around with the mappings.

I've changed it to just / now so the url should be /yardy.
In either case nothing happens thou and the error doesn't seem to be caused by url mappings.
It's more like the controller just isn't getting loaded or the WebApplicationInitializer isn't getting triggered.

Is there something more required to get this working?

[Marten Deinum]

Are you running in a Servlet 3.0 container (tomcat7, jetty 8?) else nothing is going to be booted...

[loki70x7]

Are you running in a Servlet 3.0 container (tomcat7, jetty 8?) else nothing is going to be booted...

Yes I'm running it on a Tomcat 7 server.

[Marten Deinum]

Do you have a web.xml? Also check your logging if you see something starting or see errors, you might want to enable debug logging.