Enable MVC Configuration

See equivalent in the Reactive stack

You can use the @EnableWebMvc annotation to enable MVC configuration with programmatic configuration, or <mvc:annotation-driven> with XML configuration, as the following example shows:

  • Java

  • Kotlin

  • Xml

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfiguration {
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
class WebConfiguration {
}
<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>
When using Spring Boot, you may want to use @Configuration classes of type WebMvcConfigurer but without @EnableWebMvc to keep Spring Boot MVC customizations. See more details in the MVC Config API section and in the dedicated Spring Boot documentation.

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).