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Servlet model & DispatcherServlet flow
Community description: Every Spring web request goes through one door When you build a web app with Spring, you...
Dev.to | Sep 14, 2026 | Ankit Verma
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A request to /hello lands in this servlet's doGet; a request to /goodbye does not. Every request funnels into the DispatcherServlet, and from there Spring — not the container — decides what happens. So the picture is this: the servlet container owns the network and hands each request to one servlet.
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