Describe the bug When upgrading from Spring 3.5.4 to Spring 4.0.0-M1 (yes, I know I'm very early in this migration effort), my program will build and pass tests though I get the following stacktrace ...

The <mvc:* XML configuration namespace for Spring MVC is now deprecated in favor of the Java configuration variant. There are no plans yet for removing it completely, but XML configuration will not be ...