Spring 3 Controller and Relative Paths - rest

Question

Trying to get to grips with Spring MVC Controllers. But having a problem with relative paths
I have a page at:
http://localhost:8080/jeeniweb/articles
on that page there is a menu option :
<li>Structure and Dependencies</li>`
This, in a browser, resolves to:
http://localhost:8080/jeeniweb/articles/writing_great_code/structure_and_dependencies/
When a user clicks on this link I intercept this request with a controller:
#RequestMapping(value = "/articles/{article}/{chapter}")
public String articles(#PathVariable String article, #PathVariable String chapter)
{
System.out.println("Articles Page Request");
System.out.println("article: " + article);
System.out.println("chapter: " + chapter);
return "articles/index";
}
This method catches the request and the println methdods print out the right stuff.
However after the call I want to:
http://localhost:8080/jeeniweb/articles
But in fact the browser goes to:
http://localhost:8080/mysite/articles/writing_great_code/structure_and_dependencies/
How can this be when I am returning articles/index from the method?
My Servlet config is:
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
As I understand Spring this means the resultant return after the processing above code should be /WEB-INF/views/articles/index.jsp which is what I want. That's where the index.jsp page is.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
Adam

Answer 1

The controller just knows that it intercepted the correct url, in order to resolve articles/index url, you'd need to have it return a redirect to that url such as:
return "redirect:articles/index"