Often when working with 
Spring Web MVC mappings I want all calls to a certain extension handled by a generic resolver, i.e. mapping "*.html" to corresponding "*.jsp" entries in WEB-INF. This is easily done using 
UrlFilenameViewController which automatically passes the parsed filename to the view resolver.
            
Use the following XML for the mapper, resolver, and controller in dispatcher-servlet.xml:
<bean id="urlMapping" 
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
  <property name="mappings">
    <props>
      <prop key="**/*.html">filenameController</prop>
    </props>
  </property>
</bean>
    
<bean id="viewResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"
  p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/"
  p:suffix=".jsp" />
    
<bean name="filenameController"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController"
  />
The 
urlMapping bean as configured maps every url that matches 
<any directory>/<any filename>.html to 
filenameController, defined as a 
UrlFilenameViewController, which simply strips off any leading cruft and the extension. The output is chained to the 
viewResolver bean which resolves the request to 
/WEB-INF/jsp/<any directory>/<any filename>.jsp.