Advanced Java Config

See equivalent in the Reactive stack

@EnableWebMvc imports DelegatingWebMvcConfiguration, which:

  • Provides default Spring configuration for Spring MVC applications

  • Detects and delegates to WebMvcConfigurer implementations to customize that configuration.

For advanced mode, you can remove @EnableWebMvc and extend directly from DelegatingWebMvcConfiguration instead of implementing WebMvcConfigurer, as the following example shows:

  • Java

  • Kotlin

@Configuration
public class WebConfiguration extends DelegatingWebMvcConfiguration {

	// ...
}
@Configuration
class WebConfiguration : DelegatingWebMvcConfiguration() {

	// ...
}

You can keep existing methods in WebConfig, but you can now also override bean declarations from the base class, and you can still have any number of other WebMvcConfigurer implementations on the classpath.