url-pattern doesn't work in spring mvc application - spring

Question

Spring 3.2 in apache tomcat
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/rest-servlet-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/rest/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
rest-servlet-context.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<annotation-driven />
<context:component-scan base-package="com.*" />
</beans:beans>
My Controller:
#Controller
#RequestMapping(value = "/rest/person")
public class PersonController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/test")
#ResponseBody
public String getTest() {
return "Test controller";
}
}
When i call /localhost:8080/rest/person/test, i get 404 error (page not found).
However, when i change the url-pattern in web.xml file to:
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
it works fine.
How can i make the first url-pattern work??

Answer 1

Remove rest from your RequestMapping, e.g. change it to
#RequestMapping(value = "/person")
The reason for this is that your url-pattern already contains rest/*, so what you were doing was to map to the URL rest/rest/person/test and not rest/person/test.