Equivalent of mvc:default-servlet-handler in Spring annotation-based configuration?

Question

Is it possible to have the equivalent of defined in an AnnotationConfig(Web)ApplicationContext? Right now I have:<

Answer 1

After digging a bit deeper, I found out that this is a known problem and is addressed by annotation features in the upcoming Spring 3.1.

I solved my problem with the following code:

@Configuration
@Import(FeatureConfig.class)
class AppConfig {
   ...
}

@FeatureConfiguration
class FeatureConfig {
  @Feature
  public MvcDefaultServletHandler defaultHandler() {
    return new MvcDefaultServletHandler();
  }
}

This does require using the milestone version of spring, though, but it seems to be the cleanest and preferred way of handling this.