java - Spring MVC; avoiding file extension in url?

Question

I just started with Spring Web MVC. I'm trying to avoid file extenstions in the url. How can i do this? (I'm using Spring 2.5.x)

Bean:

<bean name="/hello.htm" class="springapp.web.HelloController"/>

I want it to be:

<bean name="/hello" class="springapp.web.HelloController"/>

I cannot get it to work. Any ideas?

Edit:

Url-mapping

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>springapp</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

I have tried changing the url-pattern with no luck (* and /*).

Answer 1

In 3.0, / seems to work. That is...

<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>