Serving static content with Spring 3

java, model-view-controller, spring, spring-mvc

Solution

You are mapping your app to the root context, so you should probably include

<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>

in your mvc config. Have a look at 15.12.5 in the spring docs. I wasn't able to get mvc:resources to work without that setting when my dispatcher servlet was mapped to /. At least, that's what I seem to remember having to do when I configured this a couple of months ago in my project.

Problem

I'm trying to use resources mapping feature of Spring 3 and it does not seem to be working. Here is what I have: ``` <servlet> <servlet-name>aaa</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>aaa</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> ``` in my web.xml then in my aaa-servlet.xml I have the following: ``` <resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> ``` I'm accessing the content in jsp like this: ``` <link href="<c:url value="/resources/css/blueprint/screen.css" />" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> ``` Everything I've been reading suggests that I have it all setup correctly however it is not working. I'm using weblogic server and on startup it does map the /resources/ folder. Any help would be greately appreciated! aaa-servlet.xml in its entirety: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> <!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model --> <annotation-driven /> <!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory --> <resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> <!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources in the /WEB-INF/jsps directory --> <beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsps/" /> <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /> </beans:bean> <beans:bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource"> <beans:property name="basename" value="messages"/> </beans:bean> <!-- Imports user-defined @Controller beans that process client requests --> <beans:import resource="controllers.xml" /> ``` controllers.xml: ``` <?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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd"> <!-- Scans within the base package of the application for @Components to configure as beans --> <context:component-scan base-package="com.app.controller" /> ``` Startup log: ``` INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping - Mapped URL path [/**] onto handler 'org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.DefaultServletHttpRequestHandler#0' INFO : org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping - Mapped URL path [/resources/**] onto handler 'org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler#0' ```

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