View
Learn how to create a view template and resolve a view name.
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When a controller or handler returns a response back to the dispatcher servlet, it is either shown as it is to the user (if the @ResponseBody annotation is present), or a view is called.
In real world applications, we do not return String responses back to the user. We redirect the user to a view or JSP.
Redirecting to a view
Say, we want a request to "/" to be redirected to main-menu.jsp. We can return the view name as follows:
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@RequestMapping(value = "/")public String welcome() {return "main-menu";}
The return value main-menu will be treated as the name of a view now, because we have removed the @ResponseBody annotation from the ...