web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
		  http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
         version="3.0">

    <!-- The servlet mapping appears to be needed
    in order to handle REST call URL mapping -->

    <!--
    Both the url patterns below work just fine but only one at a time.
    -->
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <!--<url-pattern>/simple/*</url-pattern>-->
        <url-pattern>/v1/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <!-- This servlet element defines the element name above -->
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <context-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
    </context-param>

    <listener>
        <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
    </listener>

</web-app>