How is the right View chosen when it comes to the rendering phase?

In Spring MVC, the correct view is chosen during the rendering phase through the use of a ViewResolver. The process begins when the controller processes a request and returns a logical view name. This logical view name is then passed to the ViewResolver, which is responsible for mapping this name to an actual view technology, such as a JSP file.

The ViewResolver configuration determines how the logical view names are mapped to actual view paths. For example, the InternalResourceViewResolver can be configured with a prefix and a suffix to resolve the view names to specific JSP paths. If a controller returns "hello" as a logical view name, and the InternalResourceViewResolver is configured with a prefix of "/WEB-INF/views/" and a suffix of ".jsp", it would resolve the logical view name "hello" to the path "/WEB-INF/views/hello.jsp". The DispatcherServlet then forwards the request to this JSP page for re...