Are you using an especially old version of Spring? I work with Spring MVC on a pretty regular basis and I've never had that much trouble with defining a new con

Are you using an especially old version of Spring? I work with Spring MVC on a pretty regular basis and I've never had that much trouble with defining a new controller/model/view. Controller: Add an @Controller annotation and some @RequestMappings and you're done. Model: Usually these have no Spring dependency at all, though there are annotations you could put on some of the fields for various tasks if you'd like. View: Also mostly unrelated to Spring. Write a Thymeleaf template or JSP and return the name of it from the appropriate controller method.