Very basic example of Spring MVC with JavaConfig but controller is never getting call

[techsjs]

I am working on a very basic example of Spring MVC with JavaConfig but controller is never getting called?

I have posted the code at **git@github.com:JohnathanSmith/springmvc-javaconfig.git** if you would like to download the project:

I dont know why my controller is not getting called this is the first time I am trying to use JavaConfig but if I try to use the tomcat7 plugin for maven I do get an error

Here is my WebConfig:

@Configuration
    @ComponentScan(basePackages =  {"com.johnathanmsmith.mvc.web"})
    @EnableWebMvc
    public class WebMVCConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {
    
    	private static final String MESSAGE_SOURCE = "/WEB-INF/classes/messages";
    
    	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(WebMVCConfig.class);
    
    	/**
    	 * @return the view resolver
    	 */
    	@Bean
    	public ViewResolver viewResolver() {
    		logger.debug("setting up view resolver");
    
    		InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
    		viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/");
    		viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
    		return viewResolver;
    	}
    
    	@Bean(name = "messageSource")
    	public MessageSource configureMessageSource() {
    		logger.debug("setting up message source");
    		ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource messageSource = new ReloadableResourceBundleMessageSource();
    		messageSource.setBasename(MESSAGE_SOURCE);
    		messageSource.setCacheSeconds(5);
    		messageSource.setDefaultEncoding("UTF-8");
    		return messageSource;
    	}
    
    	@Bean
    	public LocaleResolver localeResolver() {
    		SessionLocaleResolver lr = new org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver();
    		lr.setDefaultLocale(Locale.ENGLISH);
    		return lr;
    	}
    
    	@Override
    	public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
    		logger.debug("setting up resource handlers");
    		registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/").addResourceLocations("/resources/**");
    	}
    
    	@Override
    	public void configureDefaultServletHandling(DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
    		logger.debug("configureDefaultServletHandling");
    		configurer.enable();
    	}
    
    	@Override
    	public void addInterceptors(final InterceptorRegistry registry) {
    		registry.addInterceptor(new LocaleChangeInterceptor());
    	}
    
    	@Bean
    	public SimpleMappingExceptionResolver simpleMappingExceptionResolver() {
    		SimpleMappingExceptionResolver b = new SimpleMappingExceptionResolver();
    
    		Properties mappings = new Properties();
    		mappings.put("org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound", "p404");
    		mappings.put("org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException",	"dataAccessFailure");
    		mappings.put("org.springframework.transaction.TransactionException", "dataAccessFailure");
    		b.setExceptionMappings(mappings);
    		return b;
    	}
    }

Here is my controller:

@Controller
    @RequestMapping("/ask")
    class IndexController {
    
    	private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(IndexController.class);
    
        @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
        public String displayRequestPage() {
            return "index";
    
        }
    
    
    }

and here is my web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <web-app version="2.5" 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_2_5.xsd">
    
        <!-- Java-based annotation-driven Spring container definition -->
        <context-param>
            <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
            <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
        </context-param>
    
        <context-param>
            <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
            <param-value>com.johnathanmsmith.mvc.web.config</param-value>
        </context-param>
    
        <listener>
            <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
        </listener>
    
    
    
        <display-name>springmvc-javaconfig Web Application</display-name>
    
        <servlet>
        <servlet-name>springmvc-javaconfig</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
        </servlet>
    
        <servlet-mapping>
            <servlet-name>springmvc-javaconfig</servlet-name>
            <url-pattern>/springmvc-javaconfig/*</url-pattern>
        </servlet-mapping>
    </web-app>

if I run **"mvn tomcat:run"** I get the following error:
[CODE]
INFO: Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'springmvc-javaconfig'
Mar 15, 2013 9:45:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: StandardWrapper.Throwable
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionSt oreException: IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/springmvc-javaconfig-servlet.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not open ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/springmvc-javaconfig-servlet.xml]

[bytor99999]

Looks like you set the ContextLoaderListener's ApplicationContext to be the one that uses JavaConfig. But the one for the DispatcherServlet is still using XmlWebApplicationContext. And therefore is looking for an xml file in the WEB-INF directory that matches the naming convention of

WEB-INF/<servletNameHere>-servlet.xml

I think for using JavaConfig for that takes an init-param in the DispatcherServlet servlet tag. I don't recall off the top of my head. Sorry.

Mark

[bytor99999]

Here you go

<!-- Declare a Spring MVC DispatcherServlet as usual -->
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
        <param-value>
            org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            org.package.YouConfigurationAnnotatedClass
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
</servlet>

Sorry first posted old packages from Java Config module.

Mark