Spring 3.0 forwarding request to different controller

Question

What is the proper way to forward a request in spring to a different controller?

@RequestMapping({\"/someurl\"})
public ModelAndView execute(Model model) {
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Answer 1

You can use view name like "redirect:controllerName" or "forward:controllerName". The latter will reroute request to another controller and former will tell browser to redirect request to another url.

docs: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/spring-framework-reference.html#mvc-redirecting-redirect-prefix