How to handle static content in Spring MVC?

Question

I am developing a webapp using Spring MVC 3 and have the DispatcherServlet catching all requests to \'/\' like so (web.xml):

Answer 1

I found a way around it using tuckey's urlrewritefilter. Please feel free to give a better answer if you have one!

In web.xml:

    UrlRewriteFilter
    org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter



    UrlRewriteFilter
    /*


  
    app
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
  

  
    app
    /app/*
  

In urlrewrite.xml:

    /
    /app/


    ^([^\.]+)$
    /app/$1


    /app/**
    /$1
    

This means that any uri with a '.' in it (like style.css for example) won't be re-written.