jsp access spring mvc resources

Question

I have spent the last hours trying to figure out how to access static ressources from a jsp in Spring mvc web application.

Here is a part from my beans config file:

<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />

now in the first jsp page my css file located at /css/style.css works fine like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" />

but in the second jsp page i can't access this image located at /images/logo.gif:

<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="anotherimage" />

can someone explain how the <mvc:ressources /> works with jsp ?

EDIT: here is my context

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
    xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
            http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">

    <bean name="viewResolver" 
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
        <property name="exposeContextBeansAsAttributes" value="true" />
    </bean>


    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
        <property name="driverClassName"    value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
        <property name="url"                value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/test" />
        <property name="username"           value="root" />
        <property name="password"           value="" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory"   class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
        <property name="packagesToScan" value="mmapp.domain" />
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <value>
                hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
            </value>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager"     class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
    </bean>
    <bean id="jdbcTemplate"     class="org.springframework.jdbc.core.simple.SimpleJdbcTemplate">
        <constructor-arg ref="dataSource" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="simpledata" class="mmapp.util.SimpleDataProvider" />

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />
    <context:annotation-config />
    <context:component-scan base-package="mmapp" />

    <mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
    <mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" /> 
</beans>

AND my web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<web-app version="2.4"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:shemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>mmapp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>mmapp</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

By my reading, shouldn't it be /images/logo.gif"? Perhaps the css directory is relative to the current directory, and that allowed that file to be loaded in that fashion. — Marvo, Jun 21 '12 at 20:32

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '12 at 20:04

The safest way to access resources is to use the jstl core library. At the very least, you can be sure that the correct url is generated in any context. Add the following line of code to your jsp file:

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>

and change the img tag to use the c:url tag:

<img src="<c:url val="/images/logo.gif" />" alt="anotherimage" />

Make sure your src attribute looks good after you make this change. You'll also have to add the jstl library to your project (probably a good idea since it's pretty standard). Your mvc:resources mapping looks good as far as I can tell.

storm_buster · Answer 2 · 2012-06-22T02:51:17.970

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after this

<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />

to get your css/image :

<link rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/style.css" type="text/css" />
<img src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/images/logo.gif" alt="anotherimage" />

edited Jun 22 '12 at 02:51

answered Jun 21 '12 at 20:33

storm_buster

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it gives me a 404 error The requested resource () is not available. – elaich Jun 21 '12 at 20:43
do you really have the image logo.gif under WebContent/images/logo.gif? – storm_buster Jun 21 '12 at 20:49
I can access it with my browser like this `http://localhost:8080/mmapp/images/logo.gif` – elaich Jun 21 '12 at 21:10
After several tries here is what i have, 404 error The requested resource () is not available when trying what is written above. when commenting the ` – elaich Jun 21 '12 at 21:36
see my updated response, i have added . if it still not working, please paste your web context – storm_buster Jun 22 '12 at 02:52
still getting the 404 error. my question now contain my web context – elaich Jun 22 '12 at 03:34
web.xml added, after adding the `` tomcat specified the resource not available it's `The requested resource (/mmapp/search) is not available.` instead of `The requested resource () is not available.` – elaich Jun 22 '12 at 12:24
i dont see anything about controller in your settings, how do you map your requests? – storm_buster Jun 22 '12 at 13:37
using annoted controllers: `` – elaich Jun 23 '12 at 14:50
I feel like `` have some conflicts with `` because everything works well when I comment the mvc:ressources part. – elaich Jun 23 '12 at 15:08
to use annotation controller you will need 1 more line – storm_buster Jun 24 '12 at 01:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 01 '12 at 01:35

I don't know if that make sense, but here is how I have resolved this:

first my controller looks like:

@Controller
@RequestMapping(value="/reports")
public class ReportsController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/reporting", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String onSubmit() {
        return "home" ;
    }
}

With all configuration listeb above, I just had to change my img tag in my home.jsp from <img src="images/logo.gif" /> to <img src="../images/logo.gif" />, and things worked well, if i remove the value = "/reporting" from my second @RequestMapping it's the <img src="images/logo.gif" /> which work!

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