Unable to call Controller method after form submission using Spring MVC 3

Hi,

I am a newbie to spring mvc. I have a employee form, which after filling 'submit's to an action, which is mapped to a Java Controller. However, the method is not being invoked. Can anyone help with the same?

Please find the attached code snapshots below.

Controller method signature


jsp form


spring configuration xml - view resolver definitions


Can anyone tell me how do I invoke the Java Controller method from the .jsp page ?

Can anyone help?

I have a feeling it has probably go to do something with the View resolvers. If I change the action="addEmployee" to action="addEmployee.do", the web server goes and searches for a page /WEB-INF/jsp/addEmployee.jsp!

What I want is for the link addEmployee to be resolved to /addEmployee which I have already annotated in my controller.

how do you map your dispatcher controller, in web.xml, I assume you used .do as the pattern, so you action have to be sufixed with .do, otherwise spring won't intercept it for you.

Hi Hongli Li,

Please read my earlier post.

Yes, I have a dispatcher servlet with .do pattern. However, if I add .do as the extension, it searches for the following resource /WEB-INF/jsp/addEmployee.jsp due to the View Resolver configuration.

Instead, what I want is for the link to be mapped to a Controller which is annotated with

Can you please show us your web.xml?

Here's my web.xml


This is my spring configuration file


PS: The BeanNameViewResolver may or may not be necessary. I was just trying a couple of things and hence have added this entry.

1. In jsp file add '.do' to the action action="addEmployee.do"
2.In the Spring config file add the mapping for this url
<bean name="/addEmployee.do" class="<give your controller class location with full package structure>"/>

Try this and let me know.

You are mapping *.do requests to spring dispatcher servlet.. but in jsp file you are just calling addEmployee, then how are you expecting the spring servlet to handle this request for you.. change addEmployee to addEmployee.do in jsp file as well as @Requestmapping.. it should work..

@Dharmakumar

2.In the Spring config file add the mapping for this url
<bean name="/addEmployee.do" class="<give your controller class location with full package structure>"/>

If I do this, my tomcat crashes during startup with the following error


@Prasad Krishnegowda
I had earlier tried doing that, but the request addEmployee.do was being resolved to /WEB-INF/jsp/addEmployee.jsp which is my default ViewResolver configuration in spring config file.

However, I tried the same again right now and it has worked. I have no idea why it had not worked the first time and why was it going to the ViewResolver earlier.

Anyway, thanks for your help!

Were you able to resolve this. I am having the same problem. I am trying call the controller from a jsp. I am not sure how to write this mapping in the Spring Config file.