title: Spring MVC annotated controller methods, unable to "find" method for DELETE operation
body: <p>Here is the actual code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@RequestMapping(value = "/competitors/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
  public Competitor getCompetitor(@PathVariable("id") long id)
  {
      Competitor competitor = competitorService.getCompetitorById(id);
  
      if (null == competitor)
      {
          EmptyResultDataAccessException e = new EmptyResultDataAccessException(1);
          logger.log(Level.WARN, e.getMessage());
          throw e;
      }
  
      return competitor;
  }
  
  @RequestMapping(value = "/competitors/{id}", method = RequestMethod.DELETE)
  public String deleteCompetitor(@PathVariable("id") long id)
  {
      Competitor competitor = new Competitor();
      competitor.setId(id);
      competitorService.deleteCompetitor(competitor);
  
      return "Solid gone!";
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Sending a DELETE request to /competitors/200 results in the error:</p>
  
  <p>"HTTP Status 405 - Request method 'DELETE' not supported"</p>
  
  <p>The logging from Spring confirms that no route to this method can be found:</p>
  
  <pre><code>5559 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet  - DispatcherServlet with name 'dispatcher' processing DELETE request for [/vrsboserver/competitors/200] 5562 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping
  - Matching patterns for request [/competitors/200] are [/competitors/{id}] 5565 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping
  - Mapping [/competitors/200] to handler 'com.gtspt.vrsboserver.controllers.CompetitorController@4fe7f80' 5565 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.WebContentInterceptor  - Looking up cache seconds for [/competitors/200] 5565 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.WebContentInterceptor  - Applying default cache seconds to [/competitors/200] 5566 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerExceptionResolver
  - Resolving exception from handler [com.gtspt.vrsboserver.controllers.CompetitorController@4fe7f80]: org.springframework.web.HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException: Request method 'DELETE' not supported 5567 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.ResponseStatusExceptionResolver
  - Resolving exception from handler [com.gtspt.vrsboserver.controllers.CompetitorController@4fe7f80]: org.springframework.web.HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException: Request method 'DELETE' not supported 5568 [tomcat-http--3] DEBUG org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver
  - Resolving exception from handler [com.gtspt.vrsboserver.controllers.CompetitorController@4fe7f80]: org.springframework.web.HttpRequestMethodNotSupportedException: Request method 'DELETE' not supported 5568 [tomcat-http--3] WARN  org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound  - Request method 'DELETE' not supported
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To which my response is "BUH?".</p>