I created a simple Spring MVC 3 application and want to use freemarker template engine. I cofigure *-context.xml as describes in off Spring's docs, but in browser I get 404 Page not found error. this is my code: HelloWorldController.java
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/hello")
public class HelloWorldController {
private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(HelloWorldController.class);
@RequestMapping(value="/{name}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String hello(@PathVariable String name, Model model) {
String result = "Hello, " + name;
model.addAttribute("result", result);
return "hello";
}
}
this is my hello.ftl in WEB-INF/freemarker folder
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello world!
</h1>
<P> The time on the server is ${result}. </P>
</body>
</html>
and my servlet-context.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing infrastructure -->
<!-- Enables the Spring MVC @Controller programming model -->
<annotation-driven />
<!-- freemarker config -->
<beans:bean id="freemarkerConfig" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerConfigurer">
<beans:property name="templateLoaderPath" value="/WEB-INF/freemarker/"/>
</beans:bean>
<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by @Controllers to .jsp resources in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".ftl" />
<beans:property name="cache" value="false" />
</beans:bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="org.example.simple" />
</beans:beans>
what is wrong and why I get 404 when I go to localhost:8080/simple/hello/username ? please, help
EDIT:
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Processes application requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
