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

From Spring 3, all the resources needs to mapped in a different way. You need to use the tag to specify the location of the resources.

Example :

By doing this way, you are directing the dispatcher servlet to look into the directory resources to look for the static content.