in my exercise i have to develop a spring application which should be accessible through a WebGUI AND a REST service. Now i browed through the examples of Spring MVC, there is this hello world tutorial on Spring MVC.
The controller looks like as follows:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/welcome")
public class HelloController {
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String printWelcome(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Spring 3 MVC Hello World");
return "hello";
}
}
Then i looked through the Spring REST example which looks like this:
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/movie")
public class MovieController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String getMovie(@PathVariable String name, ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("movie", name);
return "list";
}
@RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String getDefaultMovie(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("movie", "this is default movie");
return "list";
}
}
Now I am wondering, how do these two examples (Spring-mvc and Spring-rest) differ? They both use the same annotations and work similar. Aren't that both just REST examples?
How can I provide a Rest-Interface to a Spring-MVC application?
regards
