A Fix to Our Spring-MVC Course

Just a quick blog post to alert that there is an error in one of the config files in the Spring-MVC course. I’m uploading a fixed version now, so if you’re a user of the course, please download the new “Practicals and Code” folder, or follow these instructions:

If you start your project from the “Starting Code” folder, our web.xml contains the following:

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However, our Spring XML config file is called “Dispatcher-servlet.xml”.

By default, Spring finds it’s config file in a web app by taking the servlet name and appending “-servlet.xml” to the end – it then looks for a matching file in /WEB-INF.

If you downloaded the course before the date of this post, please rename the servlet name to Dispatcher (it appears twice in web.xml).

So, your web.xml file should be (in full):

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Many apologies for the inconvenience this has caused – it was entirely my fault and happened because I changed my naming convention between chapters.

Thanks to David Wubshet and Benjamin Quarless amongst others for flagging up this problem.