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Enable MVC Configuration

See equivalent in the Reactive stack

In Java configuration, you can use the @EnableWebMvc annotation to enable MVC configuration, as the following example shows:

  • Java

  • Kotlin

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig {
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
class WebConfig

In XML configuration, you can use the <mvc:annotation-driven> element to enable MVC configuration, as the following example shows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
		https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
		https://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd">

	<mvc:annotation-driven/>

</beans>

The preceding example registers a number of Spring MVC infrastructure beans and adapts to dependencies available on the classpath (for example, payload converters for JSON, XML, and others).