Spring and REST

After loving for more than two years Don Brown's fantastic REST plugin for Struts2 I decendent again into Spring's version of REST (see http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/08/rest-in-spring-3-mvc/) My simple porting of Don Brown's demo app to Spring failed again (I tried 12 months ago to use some work from carbon five) Anyway why, why does it not work I thought I had it figured out:

package edu.ucsd.extension.springmvchelloworld;

import java.util.Collection;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;



@Controller
public class OrdersController {
    
    private Order model = new Order();
    private Collection list;
    private OrdersService ordersService = new OrdersService();

    // GET /orders/1
    @RequestMapping("{orderId}")
    public String show(@PathVariable String id, Model model) {
     System.out.println("Showing order " + id);
  setId(id);
        model.addAttribute("order", getModel());
        return "show";
    }

    // GET /orders
 @RequestMapping
    public String index(Model model) {
        list = ordersService.getAll();
        model.addAttribute("orders", list);
        return "orders-index";
    }
    
    // GET /orders/1/edit
 @RequestMapping("/{orderId}/edit")
    public String edit(@PathVariable String id, Model model) {
  this.setId(id);
  model.addAttribute("order", getModel());
        return "orders-edit";
    }

    // GET /orders/new
 @RequestMapping("/new")
    public String editNew(Model model) {
        model.addAttribute("order", new Order());
        return "orders-editNew";
    }

    // GET /orders/1/deleteConfirm
 @RequestMapping("/{orderId}/deleteConfirm")
    public String deleteConfirm(@PathVariable String id) {
  this.setId(id);
        return "orders-deleteConfirm";
    }

    // DELETE /orders/1
 @RequestMapping(value="/{orderId}", method=RequestMethod.DELETE)
    public String destroy(@PathVariable String id) {
        ordersService.remove(id);
        //addActionMessage("Order removed successfully");
        return "orders-index";
    }

    // POST /orders
 @RequestMapping(method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public ModelAndView create(Order model) {
        ordersService.save(model);
        return new ModelAndView("orders-show", "model", getModel());
    }

    // PUT /orders/1
 @RequestMapping(value="/{orderId}", method=RequestMethod.PUT)
    public String update(@PathVariable String id, Order model) {
        ordersService.save(model);
        return "order-index";
    }

    public void setId(String id) {
        if (id != null) {
            this.model = ordersService.get(id);
        }
    }
    
    public Object getModel() {
        return (list != null ? list : model);
    }

}

Well, I guess there is some other trick I am missing.

BTW: the repository in the POM file needs to look like:

 
  org.springsource.maven.snapshot
   Springframework milestone
   http://maven.springframework.org/milestone