<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd     
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
		<context:component-scan base-package="com.zhen.springmvc.app06a.controller"/>
		<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService"/>
		<mvc:resources location="/css/" mapping="/css/**"/>
		<mvc:resources location="/" mapping="/*.html"/>
 		<bean id="conversionService" class="org.springframework.context.support.ConversionServiceFactoryBean">
			<property name="converters">
				<set>
					<bean class="com.zhen.springmvc.app06a.converter.StringToDateConverter">
						<constructor-arg type="java.lang.String" value="MM-dd-yyyy"/>
					</bean>
				</set>
			</property>
		</bean>
		<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
			<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
			<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
		</bean>
</beans>

配置完converter之后需要

<mvc:annotation-driven/>加上

conversion-service="conversionService"来注册自定义的Converter否则将调用不到自定义的Converter，

即：

<mvc:annotation-driven conversion-service="conversionService"/>

示例在github：

[email protected]:manToHome/SpringMVC.git

项目app06a，是参照书籍SpringMvc权威指南写的