title: How to create a default method in SpringMVC using annotations?
body: <p>I can't find a solution to this, and it's driving me crazy.  I have @Controller mapped that responds to several methods using @RequestMapping.  I'd like to tag one of those methods as default when nothing more specific is specified.  For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@Controller
  @RequestMapping("/user/*")
  public class UserController {
  
     @RequestMapping("login")
     public String login( MapModel model ) {}
  
     @RequestMapping("logout")
     public String logout( MapModel model ) {}
  
     @RequestMapping("authenticate")
     public String authenticate( MapModel model ) {}
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So /user/login -> login method, /user/logout -> logout, etc.  I'd like to make it so that if someone goes to /user then it routes to one of these methods.  However, I don't see anything on @RequestMapping that would allow me to specify one of these methods as a default handler.  I also don't see any other annotations that might be used on the class either to do this.  I'm beginning to suspect it doesn't exist.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Spring 2.5.6.  Is this solved in 3.0.0?  I might just hack Spring to make it work because it's tremendously annoying this isn't more straightforward.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in Advance.</p>