A view resolver resolves a View name to the actual JSP page.
The View name in this example is welcome, and we would want it to resolve to /WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp.
A view resolver can be configured in the spring context /WEB-INF/user-web-context.xml. Here's the code snippet for that:
<bean class="org.springframework.web. servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/views/</value> </property> <property name="suffix"> <value>.jsp</value> </property> </bean>
A few important points to note:
- org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver: A view resolver supporting JSPs. JstlView is typically used. It also supports tiles with a TilesView.
- <property name="prefix"> ...