The requested resource (/) is not available

Question

I have just started learning Spring MVC 3 and I have problem right at the start with running simple hello world program

I\'m trying to get this up and running, but i cant

Answer 1

@Tenelope you need not return "WEB-INF/views/home.jsp"; you can just return "home" as you have it configured in your servlet-context :

    <beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
        <beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </beans:bean> 

My advice to you would be to download the spring source(eclipse like IDE) :

http://www.springsource.org/springsource-tool-suite-download

After downloading it you can simply go to File > New > Spring Template Project > Spring MVC project

After you're done with creating project, the working template project(structured project, example controller file, example view, pom.xml etc.) will be created for you. Including the "/" example you're talking about. You can just build it and deploy it to tomcat or whatever.

This way you already get working example and you can take it from there.

Btw. check this out :

https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-mvc-showcase/blob/master/MasteringSpringMVC3.pdf?raw=true

It is enough to get you started well off with Spring MVC.