Spring MVC @RequestMapping ... using method name as action value?

Question

Say I have this:

@RequestMapping(value="/hello")
public ModelAndView hello(Model model){

    System.out.println("HelloWorldAction.sayHello");
    return null;      
}   

Is it possible to skip the value="hello" part, and just have the @RequestMapping annotation and have spring use the method name as the value, similar to this:

@RequestMapping
public ModelAndView hello(Model model){

    System.out.println("HelloWorldAction.sayHello");
    return null;      
}

Thanks!

===================EDIT=====================

Tried this but not working:

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value="admin", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public class AdminController {

    @RequestMapping
    public ResponseEntity<String> hello() { 
      System.out.println("hellooooooo");
    }


}

Answer 1

Try to add "/*" on the request mapping value of the class

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value="admin/*")
public class AdminController {

    @RequestMapping
    public ResponseEntity<String> hello() { 
      System.out.println("hellooooooo");
    }
}

You can go the page http://localhost:8080/website/admin/hello

Answer 2

It should work if you move the RequestMethod on your specific method:

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value="admin")
public class AdminController {

    @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.GET)
    public ResponseEntity<String> hello() { 
      System.out.println("hellooooooo");
    }
}

and access it through http://hostname:port/admin/hello

Have a look here: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-ann-requestmapping

Good luck