The type WebMvcConfigurerAdapter is deprecated

I have been working on Swagger equivalent documentation library called Springfox nowadays and I found that in the Spring 5.0.8 (running at present), interface WebMvcConfigurer has been implemented by class WebMvcConfigurationSupport class which we can directly extend.

import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurationSupport;

public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport { }

And this is how I have used it for setting my resource handling mechanism as follows -

@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
    registry.addResourceHandler("swagger-ui.html")
            .addResourceLocations("classpath:/META-INF/resources/");

    registry.addResourceHandler("/webjars/**")
            .addResourceLocations("classpath:/META-INF/resources/webjars/");
}

Since Spring 5 you just need to implement the interface WebMvcConfigurer:

public class MvcConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

This is because Java 8 introduced default methods on interfaces which cover the functionality of the WebMvcConfigurerAdapter class

See here:

https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/servlet/config/annotation/WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.html

In Spring every request will go through the DispatcherServlet. To avoid Static file request through DispatcherServlet(Front contoller) we configure MVC Static content.

Spring 3.1. introduced the ResourceHandlerRegistry to configure ResourceHttpRequestHandlers for serving static resources from the classpath, the WAR, or the file system. We can configure the ResourceHandlerRegistry programmatically inside our web context configuration class.

• we have added the /js/** pattern to the ResourceHandler, lets include the foo.js resource located in the webapp/js/ directory
• we have added the /resources/static/** pattern to the ResourceHandler, lets include the foo.html resource located in the webapp/resources/ directory

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class StaticResourceConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
        System.out.println("WebMvcConfigurer - addResourceHandlers() function get loaded...");
        registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/static/**")
                .addResourceLocations("/resources/");

        registry
            .addResourceHandler("/js/**")
            .addResourceLocations("/js/")
            .setCachePeriod(3600)
            .resourceChain(true)
            .addResolver(new GzipResourceResolver())
            .addResolver(new PathResourceResolver());
    }
}

XML Configuration

<mvc:annotation-driven />
  <mvc:resources mapping="/staticFiles/path/**" location="/staticFilesFolder/js/"
                 cache-period="60"/>

Spring Boot MVC Static Content if the file is located in the WAR’s webapp/resources folder.

spring.mvc.static-path-pattern=/resources/static/**