So I guess the question is what can we do about it?

I have also posted on the Spring forums if you would like to leave your comments?

Eggsy

What I think is desperately needed is something like what the MySQL and PHP documentation pages have, which is user comments beneath (but on the same page as) the official documentation.

In that case you could simply write to the response stream and set the response type like so:

@RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET)
public void myControllerMethod( HttpServletResponse response) {
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println(yourXMLHere);
response.setContentType("application/xml");
out.close();
}

The HttpServletResponse object is another parameter Spring request mapped methods can use within their signature.

Would that help?

Eggsy

The class that the method belongs to should have two annotations above it. Firstly the @Controller annotation which identifies it to Spring as controller then below that there should be the @RequestMapping annotation which should define the path. Any time a GET request is made to that path the method will be hit.

See the line:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/processName.page")
public class NameFormController

Sp the path is the processName.page path.

Hope this helps

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
protected String showNameForm(ModelMap model) throws Exception
{	
    return "form.view";
}

when the code will be executed ?, i mean there is no request mapping “path” on it. and who will be invoce it.

Is your requirement to Post/Put XML to a Spring controller?

If so Spring providers Message converters:

Message Conversion

Eggsy

Are you able to show me the controller? And then your templates.xml file?

If those two tie up check that you have the following in your servlet.xml file:

<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
    <property name="definitions">
        <list>
             <value>/WEB-INF/tiles-defs/templates.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>
 
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
    <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView"/>
</bean>

The templates.xml file location will of course be specific to your project.

If you would rather email me to sample code please feel free to drop me a message at:

eggsy _at_ eggsylife.co.uk