WebMvcConfigurerAdapter vs WebMvcConfigurationSupport in Spring MVC

<div dir&equals;"ltr" style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;" trbidi&equals;"on">In this tutorial&comma; we will discuss about difference between webmvcconfigureradapter vs webmvcconfigurationsupport&period; These both classes are related to Spring MVC java based configuration&period; It is actually simplified web configuration with Spring in the web application&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s see some differences between of these two classes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div align&equals;"center" id&equals;"ads-id"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"background-color&colon; &num;f2f9fc&semi; border-radius&colon; 3px&semi; border&colon; 1px solid &num;c9e6f2&semi; line-height&colon; 1&period;45&semi; padding&colon; 16px&semi;"><b>Popular Tutorials<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2012&sol;06&sol;spring-30-baby-step-to-learn&period;html"><em><strong>Spring Tutorial<&sol;strong> <&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;spring-web-mvc-framework-chapter-38&period;html"><strong><em>Spring MVC Web Tutorial <&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;introduction-to-spring-boot-a-spring-boot-complete-guide&period;html"><em><strong>Spring Boot Tutorial<&sol;strong> <&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2013&sol;02&sol;spring-security-take-baby-step-to-secure&period;html"><em>Spring Security Tutorial<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;spring-aop-tutorial-with-example-aspect-advice-pointcut-joinpoint&period;html"><em>Spring AOP Tutorial<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;using-spring-jdbc-framework-chapter-32&period;html"><em>Spring JDBC Tutorial<&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;spring-hateoas-hypermedia-driven-restful-web-service&period;html"><em><strong>Spring HATEOAS <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;microservices-with-spring-boot&period;html"><em><strong>Microservices with Spring Boot<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2013&sol;06&sol;jax-rs-web-service-tutorial&period;html"><strong><em>REST Webservice<&sol;em> <&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2013&sol;01&sol;core-java-baby-step-to-be-best-java-ian&period;html"><em><strong>Core Java <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2012&sol;03&sol;hibernate-3-on-baby-steps&period;html"><em><strong>Hibernate Tutorial<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><b><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dineshonjava&period;com&sol;2012&sol;12&sol;spring-batch-process-with-example&period;html"><strong><em>Spring Batch<&sol;em> <&sol;strong><&sol;a><&sol;b><&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&NewLine;<b>WebMvcConfigurerAdapter vs WebMvcConfigurationCupport <&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<table align&equals;"center" border&equals;"1">&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td><b>WebMvcConfigurationSupport<&sol;b><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td><b>WebMvcConfigurerAdapter<&sol;b><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td>In the Spring MVC framework&comma; this is the main class providing the configuration behind the MVC Java config&period; <&sol;td>&NewLine;<td>This is simple adapter class for customizing some of the default configuration&period;<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td>We could use the &commat;EnableWebMvc annotation to import the configuration of this class automatically&period; <&sol;td>&NewLine;<td>This is not related to the &commat;EnableWebMvc annotation&period;<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td>We could extend WebMvcConfigurationSupport class to prevent the default configuration imported by the &commat;EnableWebMvc annotation&period; <&sol;td>&NewLine;<td>We could extend WebMvcConfigurerAdapter class to customize some of the default configuration imported by &commat;EnableWebMvc annotation&period;<&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td>In the java configuration file for spring mvc either we could use &commat;EnableWebMvc annotation or extend WebMvcConfigurationSupport class&period; 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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!

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