This version is still in development and is not considered stable yet. For the latest stable version, please use Spring Framework 6.2.2!

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>
As of 7.0, support for the XML configuration namespace for Spring MVC has been deprecated. There are no plans yet for removing it completely but XML configuration will not be updated to follow the Java configuration model.
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).