Spring MVC and URL generation to a specific controller

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Well let me try to explain what I need: once upon a time I have been contracted by a company to work for six months. The company was using an internal MVC framework, which was really outdated and bloated. Anyway I miss one great thing about it. It had JSP tags that you would fill with a controller name (as configured in xml files) and the "Action" (yeah was struts based), so that the resulting URL would be correctly pointing there (and I didn't have to worry about writing it by hand).

I was wondering if there is something similar in Spring MVC? It would be great

It would be, yes. Sadly, I'm not aware of such a thing. Struts was totally inflexible, but that meant it was easy to generate URLs for it. Spring MVC bends every which way, so there's never a single way of doing anything. — skaffman
– skaffman, Commented Dec 16, 2010 at 13:54

Bozho · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-17 21:21:18Z

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With spring-mvc - no. But grails, which is built ontop of spring-mvc, has this exact functionality:

<g:createLink controller="yourController" action="yourAction" />

answered Dec 17, 2010 at 21:21

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