Spring : DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping not mapping URL using annotation

[puneet dhiman]

I am using Spring Tool Suite 2.5.2 IDE and tried springtravel application provided with STS.
Application worked fine with tomcat6 but not working with Jboss5.1, I am using jdk 6 update 24.

My findings are that while deploying war file application server is not resolving URL mappings defined using annotations.Following are startup logs from both servers.


Log from Jboss
21:50:53,734 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping - Looking for URL mappings in application context: org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@830910: display name [WebApplicationContext for namespace 'Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet-servlet']; startup date [Tue Apr 19 21:50:50 IST 2011]; root of context hierarchy
21:50:53,734 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified
21:50:53,734 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified
21:50:53,734 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCommonAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified
21:50:53,734 INFO [STDOUT] DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalPersistenceAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified


Log from tomcat, lines in red are missing in Jboss log.It is not processing URL mapping defined by annotations.

DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Looking for URL mappings in application context: org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext@6551c1: display name [WebApplicationContext for namespace 'Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet-servlet']; startup date [Tue Apr 19 21:49:11 IST 2011]; root of context hierarchy
DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'stubHotelSearchService': no URL paths identified
DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Mapped URL path [/hotels/*] onto handler [com.springsource.springtravel.hotels.web.HotelsController@143c268]
DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Mapped URL path [/hotels/*.*] onto handler [com.springsource.springtravel.hotels.web.HotelsController@143c268]
DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalRequiredAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified
DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalAutowiredAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified
DEBUG: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping - Rejected bean name 'org.springframework.context.annotation.internalCommonAnnotationProcessor': no URL paths identified


Mappings in class looks like

/**
 * Web controller for hotel related actions.
 */
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/hotels/*")
public class HotelsController {
	/**
	 * Default action, displays the search page.
	 * 
	 * @param searchCriteria The criteria to search for
	 */
	@RequestMapping(value = "index", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public void index(HotelSearchCriteria searchCriteria) {
	}
)

Have anyone faced this issue earlier or any suggestion and clues about workarounds?
Thanks

[Flo Ga]

Hi,

I have the same issue.

The difference is that my app works (the mapping is done) when I run it on tomcat inside Eclipse but not when I deploy it and try to run it on tomcat stand alone (not bound to eclipse)...

It might have something to do with my ant build file... I'm not that familiar with ant...

build.properties:

app.name=helloSpringServlet

appserver.home=/Users/*****/apache-tomcat-7.0.22
appserver.lib=${appserver.home}/lib
deploy.path=${appserver.home}/webapps

build.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project basedir="." default="build">
 
  <property file="build.properties"/>
  <property name="name" value="${app.name}"/>
  <property name="src.dir" value="src"/>
  <property name="web.dir" value="WebContent"/>
  <property name="build.dir" value=" build/classes"/>
  
  <path id="master-classpath">
    <fileset dir="${web.dir}/WEB-INF/lib">
      <include name="*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
    <fileset dir="${appserver.lib}">
      <include name="servlet*.jar"/>
    </fileset>
    <pathelement path="${build.dir}"/>
  </path>
  	
  <target name="build" description="Compile main source tree java files">
  	<mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
  	<javac destdir="${build.dir}" source="1.5" target="1.5" debug="true"
  	  deprecation="false" optimize="false" failonerror="true" includeantruntime="false">
  	  <src path="${src.dir}"/>
  	  <classpath refid="master-classpath"/>
  	</javac>
  </target>
      	
  <target name="deploy" depends="build" description="Deploy application">
  	<copy todir="${deploy.path}/${name}" preservelastmodified="true">
    	<fileset dir="${web.dir}">
      		<include name="**/*.*"/>
      	</fileset>
     </copy>
  </target>
 
  <target name="clean" description="Clean output directories">
      <delete>
          <fileset dir="${build.dir}">
              <include name="**/*.class"/>
          </fileset>
      </delete>
  </target>
 
</project>

So what caused the issue for you?

[Flo Ga]

Nevermind... I just figured it out (after spending hours on it... it's always right after I post on a forum)...
I'm ashamed to say it but basically when I was deploying, I wasn't copying my .class files along with the rest of the app.....................(...)