web.xml

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
		 xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
            http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
		 version="3.1">

	<display-name>Spring MVC Application</display-name>
	<!-- Configure ContextLoaderListener to use AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
		   instead of the default XmlWebApplicationContext -->
	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextClass</param-name>
		<param-value>
			org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
		</param-value>
	</context-param>

	<!-- Configuration locations must consist of one or more comma- or space-delimited
		   fully-qualified @Configuration classes. Fully-qualified packages may also be
		   specified for component-scanning -->
	<context-param>
		<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
		<param-value>
			<!-- Config classes here -->
		</param-value>
	</context-param>

	<!-- Bootstrap the root application context as usual using ContextLoaderListener -->
	<listener>
		<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
	</listener>

	<!-- Declare a Spring MVC DispatcherServlet as usual -->
	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<!-- Configure DispatcherServlet to use AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
			   instead of the default XmlWebApplicationContext -->
		<init-param>
			<param-name>contextClass</param-name>
			<param-value>
				org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext
			</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<!-- Again, config locations must consist of one or more comma- or space-delimited
			   and fully-qualified @Configuration classes -->
		<init-param>
			<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
			<param-value>
		<!-- Config classes here -->
			</param-value>
		</init-param>
	</servlet>

	<!-- map all requests for /app/* to the dispatcher servlet -->
	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>
	<filter>
		<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
		<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>encoding</param-name>
			<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
		</init-param>
		<init-param>
			<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
			<param-value>true</param-value>
		</init-param>
	</filter>

	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>

	<!-- used so we can use forms of method type 'PUT' and 'DELETE' (such as in the Pet form)
see here: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/view.html#rest-method-conversion
-->
	<filter>
		<filter-name>httpMethodFilter</filter-name>
		<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter</filter-class>
	</filter>

	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>httpMethodFilter</filter-name>
		<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
	</filter-mapping>

</web-app>