I built a class called SiteMap (implementing BeanFactoryAware) that builds a list of my app's URIs. When clients hit my root context, I'll serve out an XHTML5 representation of this sitemap for further discovery (I could possibly even serve a WADL).

In fear of re-inventing the wheel, do you have similar functionality already?

Also, it will be great if RequestMapping could be made more granular, e.g.

@RequestMappings){
@RequestMapping("/sales_channel/{region}",
@Arguments({@Argument(0, uri="/regions")}))
})

Or…

@RequestMappings){
@RequestMapping("/foo/{bar}/{baz}",
@Arguments({
@Argument(0, uri="/bars"),
@Argument(1, doc="This is a free-text field, first 30 characters accepted.")}))
})

The first one tells my client that the variable "region" has options in the result provided by the call to "/regions".
In the second one instead we provide documentation stating that the second argument is a free-text field.

I'd like to be able to have a self-documenting system like this.

Thanks,
Juan

Thanks, Anyway….

Cause I tried map the dispatcher servlet with /* but then I got some erros when trying to load other resources like scripts (js), images and static pages.

I just would like to use http://domain/users/name insted of http://domain/users/name.do

I think this is the problem – I even tried different marshallers.

There is a workaround. When you define the MarshallingView bean in your Spring XML config file, set the "modelKey" property on the view bean to tell it which object from the ModelAndView to marshall. It is not a good solution, but it works.

@RequestMapping(value="/businessFunctions", method=RequestMethod.POST)
public void post(@RequestBody String body) {
BusinessFunction bfToInsert = deserializeJson(body);
aclService.insertBusinessFunction(bfToInsert);
}

What do I have to return? My GET method works perfectly returning a string with @RequestBody annotation. I suppose POST doesn't have to return anything else than a Response code 201. The question is…. HOW?