feat: removing deprecated view resolver classes and configuring BeanNameViewResolver

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/pom.xml

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
             <artifactId>tomcat-embed-jasper</artifactId>
-            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/web/config/WebConfig.java

@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 package com.baeldung.spring.web.config;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
 import org.springframework.ui.context.support.ResourceBundleThemeSource;
 import org.springframework.web.multipart.commons.CommonsMultipartResolver;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.View;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.ViewResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ContentNegotiationConfigurer;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.InterceptorRegistry;
@@ -17,10 +15,11 @@ import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurer;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.PathResourceResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.theme.CookieThemeResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.theme.ThemeChangeInterceptor;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.BeanNameViewResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.ResourceBundleViewResolver;
+
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.XmlViewResolver;
+import java.io.IOException;
 
 //@EnableWebMvc
 //@ComponentScan(basePackages = { "com.baeldung.web.controller" })
@@ -93,19 +92,25 @@ public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
     /** END theme configuration */
 
     @Bean
-    public ViewResolver resourceBundleViewResolver() {
+    public BeanNameViewResolver beanNameViewResolver(){
-        final ResourceBundleViewResolver bean = new ResourceBundleViewResolver();
+        BeanNameViewResolver beanNameViewResolver = new BeanNameViewResolver();
-        bean.setBasename("views");
+        beanNameViewResolver.setOrder(1);
-        bean.setOrder(0);
+        return beanNameViewResolver;
-        return bean;
     }
 
     @Bean
-    public ViewResolver xmlViewResolver() {
+    public View sample() {
-        final XmlViewResolver bean = new XmlViewResolver();
+        return new JstlView("/WEB-INF/view/sample.jsp");
-        bean.setLocation(new ClassPathResource("views.xml"));
+    }
-        bean.setOrder(1);
+
-        return bean;
+    @Bean
+    public View sample2() {
+        return new JstlView("/WEB-INF/view2/sample2.jsp");
+    }
+
+    @Bean
+    public View sample3(){
+        return new JstlView("/WEB-INF/view3/sample3.jsp");
     }
 
     /**

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/src/main/resources/views.properties

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-sample2.(class)=org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView
-sample2.url=/WEB-INF/view2/sample2.jsp
-

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/src/main/resources/views.xml

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
-        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.2.xsd">
- 
-    <bean id="sample3" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView">
-        <property name="url" value="/WEB-INF/view3/sample3.jsp" />
-    </bean>
-    
-</beans>