Having this basic function

protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(...) {
    ...
    return new ModelAndView("welcomePage", "WelcomeMessage", message);
}

I know that this will return modelandView. I know that welcomePage is my viewname so that means something like welcomepage.jsp will get called.

But I am confused with what is Model part. What is WelcomeMessage and message and how Model work in that scenario?

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