Howto get rid of <mvc:annotation-driven />?

Up to now, <mvc:annotation-driven /> has caused plenty of trouble for me, so I would like to get rid of it. Although the spring framework docs clearly say what it is supposed to be doing, a listing of tags actually summar <mvc:annotation-driven /> is lacking.

So I'm stuck with removing <mvc:annotation-driven /> and now getting the error

WARN o.s.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/webapp/trainees] in DispatcherServlet with name 'workoutsensor'

for all Urls supposed to be resolved by the controller classes (in this case: ./trainees). Any suggestion where I can read more about <mvc:annotation-driven />? I desperately would like to know what tags exactly are represented by <mvc:annotation-driven />.