Spring MVC 3 : Ambiguous mapping found

Question

I am playing with spring MVC 3.1 and testing different features. I wanted to verify following statement taken from @RequestMapping#value doc

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Answer 1

If you have a controller as given below, all requests other than /book/edit will be directed to mydefault() while /book/edit will be sent to meet().

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/book")
public class BookController {

    @RequestMapping
    public @ResponseBody String mydefault() {
        return "Hi Book!";
    }

    @RequestMapping("/edit")
    public @ResponseBody String meet() {
        return "Nice to meet you Book!";
    }
}

In your sample you have two methods without explicit path mapping.