Similar to the previous example, let's create a simple Controller. Consider the example of a controller here:

    @Controller 
    public class BasicViewController { 
      @RequestMapping(value = "/welcome-view") 
      public String welcome() { 
        return "welcome"; 
       } 
    }

A few important things to note are as follows:

• @RequestMapping(value = "/welcome-view"): We are mapping an URL /welcome-view.
• public String welcome(): There is no @RequestBody annotation on this method. So, Spring MVC tries to match the string that is returned, welcome, to a view.