View

Learn how to create a view template and resolve a view name.

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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