diff --git a/SpringMVCHandlers/src/main/resources/spring-servlet.xml b/SpringMVCHandlers/src/main/resources/spring-servlet.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
-	xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
-                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd     
-                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
-                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd">
-
-	<!-- <bean id="HandlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping" /> -->
-
-	<!-- <bean name="/greeting.html" class="com.baeldung.spring.controller.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapterExampleController" /> -->
-
-	<context:component-scan base-package="com.baeldung.spring.controller"/>
-     
-	<!-- <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping"/> -->
-     
-	<!-- <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"/> -->
-	
-	<!-- <mvc:annotation-driven /> -->
-	
-	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerMapping"/>
- 
-	<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter"/>
-	
-	<bean id="viewResolver"
-		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
-		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/" />
-		<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
-	</bean>
-</beans>  
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