Spring app migration: from XML to Java-based config - The Boy Wonders
Our team recently built a Spring MVC 3.1 application for a web service API. We had used the traditional XML-based configuration but I wanted to see how easy would it be to migrate a Spring application from an XML-based to a Java annotation-based configuration.
I referenced three great resources for this migration:
- @baeldung's excellent Bootstrapping a web application with Spring 3.1 and Java based Configuration series
- @doughaber's post, Pagination with Spring MVC, Spring Data and Java Config, included some great "gotchas", especially around web tier configuration
- @cbeam and @rstoya05's presentation, Configuration Enhancements in Spring 3.1, laid out in terrific detail how Spring configuration has evolved and how most XML configurations could be achieved through Java annotations
The web.xml defined the context configuration and dispatch servlet locations:
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