I am fairly new to spring and I am having issues with accessing my resources in my Spring mvc app. I have tried Google and using stack overflow to find an answer (none of these helped me possible solution 1 , or possible solution, possible solution 3, spring framework ) but I have found none that have either solved my problem or improved my understanding of the problem (it may be simply because I didn't quite understand the mentioned solutions).
I have managed to embedded my css file into a webpage but using the code:
<%@include file="css/style.css" %>
but I cannot access it using a URL this way for obvious reasons. I have also tried using the following in my web.xml file but it has no effect, I admit I don't really understand the mapping in this case so that may be an issue
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />
I have also tried using each of the following separately:
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/logo.jpg"/>
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/src/main/resources/images/logo.jpg"/>
This is my project layout:
This is my web.xml:
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>MyProject Application</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
This is my myServlet-servlet.xml:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
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">
<!-- -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />
<bean name="/index.html"
class="com.myproject.controller.AdminController" />
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" >
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
and just in case here is my pom.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.myproject</groupId>
<artifactId>myProject</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>myProject Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<springVersion>3.0.4.RELEASE</springVersion>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- JUnit -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- ORACLE JDBC driver, need install yourself -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc6</artifactId>
<version>11.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>3.6.3.Final</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring framework -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${springVersion}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- for compile only, your container should have this -->
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Commons-logging & log4j -->
<dependency>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
<version>1.2.12</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>admin_UI</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<webappDirectory>/sample/servlet/container/deploy/directory</webappDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
I would be happy if I can get access the images and css folders and the contents those folders from within the webapp/WEB-INF/pages the same way I can access my jsp pages (ie via URL), but Ideally I would like to understand how I should do this correctly i.e. what folder I should be mapping (srcmain
esources or srcmainwebappWEB-INFsome_resource_folder) and how I should map it.
If any more information is require I would be happy to supply.
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