Creating a multi-action @Controller

The implementation of the multi-action controller has evolved from extending the class org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.multiaction.MultiActionController up to the modern day use of the @Controller annotation. This recipe will show you how to easily create a multi-action controller using JavaConfig.

Getting started

We will be adding a multi-action controller to the same project, ch03. This is another option to manage all the request handlers.

How to do it...

To create a multi-action controller in the Spring 5.0 platform, follow these steps:

1. Let us start this recipe with a multi-action controller named MultiActionController with all its handler methods mapped to their respective URLs, similar to a hub of independent services:

@Controller 
public class MultiActionController { 
 
  @RequestMapping(value={"/send/*", "/list/*"}, 
    method=RequestMethod.GET) 
  public String defaultMethod(){ 
    return "default_msg"; 
  } 
  
  @RequestMapping(value="/send/message_get...