cxf and spring MVC : No service was found

Question

I have spring application, in which I use org.apache.cxf for soap and spring MVC for displayng some pages. My web.xml contains two servlets : CXFServlet and mvc-dispatcher

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>


<servlet>
    <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>WEB-INF/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

When I has been used @ResponseBody in my controller everything was fine.

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/hello")
@ResponseBody
public class HelloController {
    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String printWelcome() {       
        return "hello" ;
    }
}

but then i was needed to use jsp I have to use the following

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/hello")
public class HelloController {
    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public ModelAndView printWelcome(ModelMap model) {
        model.addAttribute("message", "hello");
        return new ModelAndView("hello") ;
    }
}

and when I request http://localhost:8080/hello I get "No service was found" instead of "hello"

I found that if I delete following from web.xml

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

 <servlet>
    <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

my controller works fine.

Answer 1

The Servlet container you are using is matching CXFServlet instead of mvc-dispatcher for the URI http://localhost:8080/hello , resulting in your request being sent to CXFServlet, and the error message "No service was found" being returned by CXFServlet. To quote the Servlet 3.0 spec,

Versions of this specification prior to 2.5 made use of these mapping techniques as a suggestion rather than a requirement, allowing servlet containers to each have their different schemes for mapping client requests to servlets.

http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/jcp/servlet-3.0-fr-eval-oth-JSpec/

You will likely need to configure you CXFServlet mapping to something else, eg

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>CXFServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/services/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

You might want to mention the container (Tomcat, Glassfish, etc.) that you are using, as there could also be a bug preventing this from working correctly.