I searched high and low to solve this problem, but I can not find a solution. The problem is this: I have a Spring -mvc webapp build on a Tomcat 7 server - 7.0.12, to be precise - and I had problems with the <mvc:resources> tag working correctly. As you will see below, <mvc:resources> works for the old resources folder, but I prefer to have the resources folder in the /WEB-INF/web/ .
MediorkoorVOICES-Web-servlet.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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-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="com.oudejans.mediorkoorvoices.web" /> <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/WEB-INF/web/resources/" /> <mvc:annotation-driven /> <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" /> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/web/jsp/" /> <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /> <property name="order" value="1" /> </bean> <bean id="handlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" /> <import resource="web/tiles/web-tiles.xml" /> </beans>
Folder structure
:
META-INF resources (Old resources folder) - web - images - css - main.css WEB-INF - classes - lib - admin - shared - web - jsp - tiles - resources (New resources folder i want to access) - images - banner.png - js - etc.
Now, if I wanted to access the old resource folder, the code below will work.
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> & <img src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/resources/oldBanner.png" />
But I would rather do something like this:
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="classpath:/WEB-INF/web/resources/" /> & <img src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/resources/images/banner.png" />
Can someone explain to me how I do this? I am new to Spring -mvc.
EDIT1: Additional data: I am using netbeans 7.1.2 and Spring -mvc version 3.1.0 in conjunction with maven.
Below is Pom.xml
<properties> <endorsed.dir>${project.build.directory}/endorsed</endorsed.dir> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> <org.springframework.version>3.1.0.RELEASE</org.springframework.version> <org.hibernate.version>3.5.6-Final</org.hibernate.version> <org.apache.tiles.version>2.2.2</org.apache.tiles.version> <netbeans.hint.deploy.server>Tomcat</netbeans.hint.deploy.server> <netbeans.hint.j2eeVersion>1.6</netbeans.hint.j2eeVersion> </properties> <repositories> <repository> <id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.release</id> <name>EBR Spring Release Repository</name> <url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release</url> </repository> <repository> <id>com.springsource.repository.bundles.external</id> <name>EBR External Release Repository</name> <url>http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId> <version>${org.hibernate.version}</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId> <version>${org.hibernate.version}</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId> <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId> <version>${org.hibernate.version}</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId> <artifactId>tiles-api</artifactId> <version>${org.apache.tiles.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId> <artifactId>tiles-core</artifactId> <version>${org.apache.tiles.version}</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.tiles</groupId> <artifactId>tiles-jsp</artifactId> <version>${org.apache.tiles.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId> <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId> <version>1.4</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>mysql</groupId> <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> <version>5.1.18</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>log4j</groupId> <artifactId>log4j</artifactId> <version>1.2.14</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId> <version>1.5.8</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax</groupId> <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId> <version>6.0</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>jstl</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId> <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId> <version>3.0-alpha-1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.10</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>org.springframework.core</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>org.springframework.orm</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>org.springframework.web</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>org.springframework.web.servlet</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>org.springframework.test</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.3.2</version> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> <compilerArguments> <endorseddirs>${endorsed.dir}</endorseddirs> </compilerArguments> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1.1</version> <configuration> <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml> </configuration> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.1</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>validate</phase> <goals> <goal>copy</goal> </goals> <configuration> <outputDirectory>${endorsed.dir}</outputDirectory> <silent>true</silent> <artifactItems> <artifactItem> <groupId>javax</groupId> <artifactId>javaee-endorsed-api</artifactId> <version>6.0</version> <type>jar</type> </artifactItem> </artifactItems> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build>
EDIT2: I added the full MediorkoorVOICES-Web-servlet.xml and web.xml
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value> /WEB-INF/hibernateContext.xml /WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml </param-value> </context-param> <context-param> <param-name>log4jConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener</listener-class> </listener> <listener> <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class> </listener> <error-page> <error-code>404</error-code> <location>/errors/404.err</location> </error-page> <servlet> <servlet-name>MediorkoorVOICES-Web</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>MediorkoorVOICES-Web</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.mkvp</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <servlet> <servlet-name>MediorkoorVOICES-Admin</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>MediorkoorVOICES-Admin</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.mkvap</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <servlet> <servlet-name>ErrorHandler</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>ErrorHandler</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.err</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <session-config> <session-timeout> 30 </session-timeout> </session-config> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> </web-app>
EDIT3: after some testing, I realized that the <mvc:resources> doesn’t work at all. (Look at the updated folder structure) If I, for example, do:
<mvc:annotation-driven /> <mvc:resources location="/resources/web/" mapping="/resources/**" /> & <a href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/resources/css/main.css" />click</a>
It also gives me 404, while in fact it should reference the /resources/web/css/main.css file. So all I can think of right now is that there is some kind of skipping configuration.