<mvc:annotation-driven />

摘要：<mvc:annotation-driven />

            它会自动注册DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping 与AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter 这两个bean

<mvc:annotation-driven />到底帮我们做了啥

一句 <mvc:annotation-driven />实际做了以下工作：（不包括添加自己定义的拦截器）

我们了解这些之后，对Spring3 MVC的控制力就更强大了，想改哪就改哪里。

spring 3.0.x是下面的配置

    <!-- 注解请求映射  -->
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">        
        <property name="interceptors">
            <list>  
                <ref bean="logNDCInteceptor"/>   <!-- 日志拦截器，这是你自定义的拦截器 -->
            </list>        
        </property>        
    </bean>      
    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
        <property name="messageConverters">  
            <list>  
                <ref bean="byteArray_hmc" />  
                <ref bean="string_hmc" />  
                <ref bean="resource_hmc" />  
                <ref bean="source_hmc" />  
                <ref bean="xmlAwareForm_hmc" />  
                <ref bean="jaxb2RootElement_hmc" />  
                <ref bean="jackson_hmc" />  
            </list>  
        </property>  
    </bean>  
    <bean id="byteArray_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理.. -->
    <bean id="string_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理.. -->
    <bean id="resource_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.ResourceHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理.. -->
    <bean id="source_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.SourceHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理.. -->
    <bean id="xmlAwareForm_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.XmlAwareFormHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理.. -->
    <bean id="jaxb2RootElement_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理.. -->
    <bean id="jackson_hmc" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter" /><!-- 处理json-->

转载:http://elf8848.iteye.com/blog/875830

spring 3.1 later：

Spring 3.0.x中使用了annotation-driven后，缺省使用DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping 来注册handler method和request的mapping关系。
AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter来在实际调用handlermethod前对其参数进行处理。
并在dispatcherServlet中，当用户未注册自定义的ExceptionResolver时，注册AnnotationMethodHandlerExceptionResolver来对使用@ExceptionHandler标注的异常处理函数进行解析处理(这也导致当用户注册了自定义的exeptionResolver时将可能导致无法处理@ExceptionHandler)。
在spring mvc 3.1中，对应变更为 
DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping -> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping 
AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter -> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter 
AnnotationMethodHandlerExceptionResolver -> ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver 

以上都在使用了annotation-driven后自动注册。 
  而且对应分别提供了AbstractHandlerMethodMapping , AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter和 AbstractHandlerMethodExceptionResolver以便于让用户更方便的实现自定义的实现类

<mvc:annotation-driven />的可选配置

<mvc:annotation-driven  message-codes-resolver ="bean ref" validator="" conversion-service="">
    <mvc:return-value-handlers>
        <bean></bean>
    </mvc:return-value-handlers>
    
    <mvc:argument-resolvers>
    </mvc:argument-resolvers>
    
    <mvc:message-converters>

                 <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="supportedMediaTypes">
                    <list>
                        <value>text/plain;charset=UTF-8</value>
                        <value>text/html;charset=UTF-8</value>
                    </list>
                </property>
          </bean>
          <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="supportedMediaTypes">
                    <list>
                        <value>application/json; charset=UTF-8</value>
                        <value>application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8</value>
                    </list>
                </property>

                 </bean>
    </mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>

具体可以参见：http://starscream.iteye.com/blog/1098880