title: Spring 3 Annotations
body: <p>I can't get spring annotations to work at all, I'm just trying to get the simplest thing to work...</p>
  
  <p>.../mycontext/something -> invokes method:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@RequestMapping(value = "/something")
  @ResponseBody
  public String helloWorld() {
      System.out.println("hello world");
      return "Hello World";
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My main problem is no matter how hard I try, I can't find a complete SIMPLE example of the configuration files needed, every spring tutorial is filled with junk, I just one one controller to handle a request with a mapping and can't get it to work</p>
  
  <p>does anyone know of a simple and complete spring example.  pet-clinic is no good, it's way too complicated, I have a tiny basic use case and it's proving to be a real pain to get working (this always happens with Spring)</p>