Spring Tomcat and static resources and mvc:resources
java, jsp, spring, spring-mvc, tomcat
Solution
`<mvc:resources>` plays well with annotated controllers, but may require some extra configuration with other kinds of controller mappings.
I guess in your case you need to declare `BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping` manually (it's usually registered by default, but `<mvc:resources>` overrides defaults as a side-effect of applying its own configuration):
<bean class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping" />
Problem
I started doing a web app from scratch. Before I've always been working on apps that were already running for a long time, so I didn't have to deal with the full setup phase. I am using Spring 3 and Tomcat 6, and I am using Eclipse 3.6 I've a big problem with serving images (or other things different from controller responses). In fact I can't find a way to have my images in my jsps. My configuration, works with: ``` <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>springDispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> ``` in web.xml and ``` <bean name="/accise" class="it.jsoftware.jacciseweb.controllers.MainController"> </bean> ``` for the servlet context (plus other of course). I've read many messages here and other forums talking about this: ``` <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> ``` but if I insert that in my servlet-context.xml, I will be able to serve images, yet the controller "accise" won't be reachable. Am I misusing or I misunderstood the resources tag? What's the correct way? Update solution found!!! :) The problem was that my servlet-config.xml missed one declaration: Now it is(using annotations on the controller): ``` <?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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="it.jsoftware.jacciseweb.controllers"></context:component-scan> <mvc:annotation-driven /> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping" /> <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> ```