Controller picks up call to ViewResolver

[Jeroen Kransen]

Hello,

I have exactly 1 Controller that I want to pick up any request. Since I want to put information in the URL (as opposed to parameters), and I want to be able to start this info from the root (eg http://hostname/info/moreinfo/...), I came up with the following mapping:

<bean name="showCategoryController" class="favorites.www.ShowCategoryController">
	<property name="bookmarkService" ref="bookmarkService"/>
</bean>
	
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
	<property name="mappings">
		<props>
			<prop key="/*">showCategoryController</prop>
		</props>
	</property>
</bean>
	
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
	<property name="prefix">
		<value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>
	</property>
	<property name="suffix">
		<value>.jsp</value>
	</property>
	<property name="viewClass">
		<value>org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView</value>
	</property>
</bean>

The problem is, that when I want to show a View, it is again picked up by the Controller (since it matches /*). How can I avoid this? Is this behaviour at all desirable? I would think that by the time you decide to show a View, you are beyond matching Controllers.

Jeroen