Set Index.html As Default Landing Page (or map app root (“/”) to index.html) of Application In Spring MVC

Spring 3 comes with view-controller which we can use as a tag in XML.

We need not write a method to just re-direct it to a view if you don’t have anything to do in controller.

Fortunately Spring 3 has a better way where you can configure (or register if you are using XML free configuration) if you don’t have anything to do in controller method and just want to invoke view.

Spring 3 comes with view-controller which we can use as a tag in XML.

<!--Forwards requests tothe"/"resource tothe"index"view-->

<mvc:view-controller path="/"view-name="index"/>

Or alternatively in XML free configuration approach…

@Override

public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry){

registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("index");

}

Behind the scenes, mvc:view-controller registers a ParameterizableViewController that selects a view for rendering. In this case, when “/” is requested, the index view is rendered. The actual view template is a .jsp resolved inside the /WEB-INF/views directory.

The complete XML file will look similar to below.

<?xml version="1.0"encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"

 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

 xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"

 xsi:schemaLocation="

 http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans

 http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd

 http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc

 http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd">

<mvc:view-controller path="/"view-name="welcome"/>

<bean id="viewResolver"

class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

<property name="prefix"value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>

<property name="suffix"value=".jsp"/>

</bean>

</beans>

XML Free Web MVC Configuration will need following implementation.

package or.techzoo.springmvc;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;

import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;

@Configuration

@EnableWebMvc

@ComponentScan(basePackages="org.techzoo.springmvc.controller")

public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

@Override

public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {

registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("index");

}

@Bean

public InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver() {

InternalResourceViewResolver resolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();

resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/views/");

resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");

return resolver;

}

}