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Thanks for the direction - I had seen that article previously and in fact had run through the step-by-step spring tutorial (with annotations) without any issues. &nbsp;My biggest problem was trying to understand which build-path libraries were required to get annotations supported properly, I couldn't get it working properly. &nbsp;Although I do agree with your answer.
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Thanks for the direction - I had seen that article previously and in fact had run through the step-by-step spring tutorial (with annotations) without any issues.  My biggest problem was trying to understand which build-path libraries were required to get annotations supported properly, I couldn't get it working properly.  Although I do agree with your answer.

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I'm very new to spring mvc but not new to web development or the mvc design pattern. &nbsp;I was running through the relatively straight-forward spring 2.5 beginners tutorial when at some point I discovered that 2.5 supports annotated controllers and request mappings (@Controller @RequestMapping) in lieu of xml cofiguration - a very attractive feature in my opinion. &nbsp;However I'm having a very difficult time finding documentation that is complete on how to leverage this feature - I see a lot of partial instructions but none geared towards the spring mvc beginner. &nbsp;Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I'm very new to spring mvc but not new to web development or the mvc design pattern.  I was running through the relatively straight-forward spring 2.5 beginners tutorial when at some point I discovered that 2.5 supports annotated controllers and request mappings (@Controller @RequestMapping) in lieu of xml cofiguration - a very attractive feature in my opinion.  However I'm having a very difficult time finding documentation that is complete on how to leverage this feature - I see a lot of partial instructions but none geared towards the spring mvc beginner.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Spring MVC Annotated Controllers

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