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 got the same problem and found Joris's answer very helpful. But additionally I need to add

to the servlet config file. Without that resource mapping will not work and all handlers will stop working. Hope this will help someone.