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 directory structure looks like this:

In my Home.jsp page, the image that doesn't render is referenced like so:

<img src="Images/face.png" />

I've verified that face.png is in the Images directory. So why doesn't it appear in the browser? In Spring MVC, where should I place files referenced by JSP views, like images, CSS, JS, etc?

Answer 1

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.