Spring MVC REST : static files unaccessible because of url-pattern
java, servlets, spring-mvc, tuckey-urlrewrite-filter, url-pattern
Solution
You can map your controllers to a smaller set of URLS (i.e. /app/*), and then rewrite the URLs that your users actually see so that they don't even know about. Have a look at the mvc-basic webapp sample, particularly web.xml and urlrewrite.xml to see how this is done.
Problem
My Spring Dispatcher servlet url-pattern is /* (as spring MVC REST suggests) Now all the request are resolved by this Servlet. even CSS/JS/Images also get resolved and handled by servlet.. So, Spring MVC tries to find controller.. :( How to bypass this? Is there any standard way out of this problem?? & Don't want to change url-pattern to /rest/* (so, other static resources get accessed by /css/ or /js etc.)