Where to place images/CSS in spring-mvc app?

Question

I used Netbeans to create a Spring MVC 3.0 app. I have a simple controller and JSP view. The JSP view appears correctly except for an image that doesn\'t render. My direc

Answer 1

I believe it can only reference images/css in the WEB-INF folder. Moving your Images folder to WEB-INF should fix your problem.

Answer 2

anything under Web-Inf folder will be marked as private and can not be access by the browser. You suppose to move the image folder outside Web-Inf and under webapp.

Answer 3

Alter your web.xml file:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring-servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring-servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/<url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

and add below configuration after it:

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.gif</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.jpg</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.png</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

If you have a better solution please share with me.

Answer 4

For set image in jsp file in Spring MVC framework :

You can simply set your image by following steps:

Step 1. Place images folder in resources

Step 2. write image path like : src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/resources/images/logo.jpg"

Answer 5

A bit old, but let me add my bit here. It is generally preferred to hide the .css/ .js files from direct public access by placing them into the main/java/webapp folder instead of the WEB-INF.

The reasons are explained very well in the posts below:

• What is WEB-INF used for in a Java web application?
• How to access css/js files in jsps, all of them are placed in WEB-INF?? (spring forum)

Answer 6

I think you can put all the static data such as image, css, javascripts etc out side the WEB-INF and then call it the normal way :)