Spring MVC, Return ModelAndView statements are ignored in Controller

Question

I have following app setup.

The dispatcher servlet is matched to the *.htm URL pattern.
Controller has the annotation @RequestMapping(value = "doSuccess")
The method for the above annotation just returns new ModelAndView("success");

 <bean id="jspViewResolver"
      class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
      p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
      p:suffix=".jsp" 
      p:order="1"/>

The index page has the link

<a href="doSuccess.htm">Click me</a>

There is a file called success.jsp located in /WEB-INF/jsp/

Now, when I click on the Click me, I get a 404. I did a bit of debugging and realized that the method in the controller was indeed being called but irrespective of the return statement it is trying to find doSuccess.htm.

Please show us the config, rather than describing it. Did you tell Spring to look in `/jsp`? — skaffman, Jul 01 '11 at 17:42
Could someone explain when a return ModelAndView("xyz") statement is ignored or overridden to return some other page (in this case the initial htm page that was in the link!)? — user825282, Jul 01 '11 at 18:05

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:48

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I figured the error. I was using Netbeans and i used the auto complete imports. It was importing the org.springframework.web.portlet.ModelAndView instead of servlet.ModelAndView.

answered Jul 05 '11 at 18:48

user825282

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