title: Spring MVC multiple url mapping to the same controller method
body: <p>Let's say we have 3 url-patterns for a servlet named dispatcher in web.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/aaa/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/bbb/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  &lt;servlet-mapping&gt;
      &lt;servlet-name&gt;dispatcher&lt;/servlet-name&gt;
      &lt;url-pattern&gt;/ccc/*&lt;/url-pattern&gt;
  &lt;/servlet-mapping&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and a controller method:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@RequestMapping(value = "/xxx", method = RequestMethod.POST)
  public String foo() {}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Since the path value in @RequestMapping does not contain servlet path, when users request</p>
  
  <pre><code>/aaa/xxx
  /bbb/xxx
  /ccc/xxx
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the requests will all be mapped to method foo.</p>
  
  <p>I think this could cause potential problem if the web site is very complicated. Is it a flaw in Spring Web MVC or I misunderstand something?</p>