Open our HomeController class and add one more request mapping method as follows:

@RequestMapping("/welcome/greeting")
public String greeting() {
  return "welcome";
}

Now, alter the return statement of the existing welcome request mapping method, and save it as follows:

return "forward:/welcome/greeting";

Now, run our application and enter http://localhost:8080/webstore/. You will be able to see a welcome message on the web page.

Now, alter the return statement of the existing welcome request mapping method again and save it as follows:

return "redirect:/welcome/greeting";

Now, run our application and enter http://localhost:8080/webstore/. You will see a blank page without any welcome message.

Finally, revert the return value of the welcome method of HomeController...