Configure Static Resources in Spring MVC

The objective of the document
Create Maven Project
Configuring Maven
Configuring Spring MVC
Spring Controllers
Static Resource & Views
Run Application

1. The objective of the document

The document is based on:

Eclipse 4.6 (NEON)
Spring 4 MVC

In this post, I will guide you to configure static data sources in Spring MVC which are normally images, css files, and javascript,...

Spring MVC allows you to map between an URL and a specific location of the data source. You can see the illustration below:

2. Create Maven Project

File/New/Other..

Enter:

Group ID: org.o7planning
Artifact ID: SpringMVCStaticResource
Package: org.o7planning.tutorial.springmvcresource

Project is created.

Do not worry with the error message when Project has been created. The reason is that you have not declared Servlet library.

Note:
Eclipse 4.6 (NEON) create Maven project structure may be wrong. You need to fix.

Make sure that you use Java >=6.

Project properties:

3. Configuring Maven

web.xml configuration using Web App >= 3.

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
    http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd"
    id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
   
    <display-name>SpringMVCResource</display-name>
   
</web-app>

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">


<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.o7planning</groupId>
<artifactId>SpringMVCResource</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SpringMVCResource Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>


  <dependencies>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>3.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
      </dependency>


      <!-- Servlet API -->
      <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/javax.servlet-api -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
          <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
          <version>3.1.0</version>
          <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>


      <!-- Jstl for jsp page -->
      <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet/jstl -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
          <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
          <version>1.2</version>
      </dependency>


      <!-- JSP API -->
      <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.servlet.jsp/jsp-api -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
          <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
          <version>2.2</version>
          <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>



      <!-- Spring dependencies -->
      <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-core -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
          <version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
      </dependency>

      <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-web -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
          <version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
      </dependency>

      <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-webmvc -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
          <version>4.3.3.RELEASE</version>
      </dependency>


  </dependencies>
 
 
  <build>
      <finalName>SpringMVCResource</finalName>
      <plugins>

          <!-- Config: Maven Tomcat Plugin -->
          <!-- http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat.maven/tomcat7-maven-plugin -->
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
              <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>2.2</version>
            
              <!-- Config: contextPath and Port (Default - /SpringMVCResource : 8080) -->
            
              <!--
              <configuration>
                  <path>/</path>
                  <port>8899</port>
              </configuration>
              -->
          </plugin>
      </plugins>
  </build>
 
</project>

4. Configuring Spring MVC

SpringWebAppInitializer.java

package org.o7planning.springmvcresource.config;

import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRegistration;

import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;

public class SpringWebAppInitializer implements WebApplicationInitializer {

    @Override
    public void onStartup(ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
        AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext appContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
        appContext.register(ApplicationContextConfig.class);

        ServletRegistration.Dynamic dispatcher = servletContext.addServlet("SpringDispatcher",
                new DispatcherServlet(appContext));
        dispatcher.setLoadOnStartup(1);
        dispatcher.addMapping("/");
    }

}

ApplicationContextConfig.java

package org.o7planning.springmvcresource.config;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver;

@Configuration

@ComponentScan("org.o7planning.springmvcresource.*")
public class ApplicationContextConfig {

    @Bean(name = "viewResolver")
    public InternalResourceViewResolver getViewResolver() {
        InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolver = new InternalResourceViewResolver();

        viewResolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/pages/");
        viewResolver.setSuffix(".jsp");

        return viewResolver;
    }
 
}

WebMvcConfig.java

package org.o7planning.springmvcresource.config;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ResourceHandlerRegistry;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;


@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebMvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

   // Static Resource Config
   @Override
   public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
   
       // Css resource.
       registry.addResourceHandler("/styles/**") //
                 .addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/resources/css/").setCachePeriod(31556926);
       
   }

   
   @Override
   public void configureDefaultServletHandling(DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer configurer) {
       configurer.enable();
   }

}

Note:

Configuring Static Resource:

// Css resource.
registry.addResourceHandler("/styles/**") //
          .addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/resources/css/");

5. Spring Controllers

MyController.java

package org.o7planning.springmvcresource.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
public class MainController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/staticResourceTest")
    public String staticResource(Model model) {
        return "staticResourceTest";
    }
    
}

6. Static Resource & Views

Static Resource

scripts/common.js

function sayHello()  {    
  alert("Hello from JavaScript");
}

/WEB-INF/resource/css/commons.css

.button {
  font-size: 20px;
  background: #ccc;
}

.red-text {
  color: red;
  font-size: 30px;
}

.green-text {
  color: green;
  font-size: 20px;
}

Views

staticResourceTest.jsp

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">

<title>Spring MVC Resource example</title>


<script type="text/javascript"
    src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/scripts/common.js"></script>


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
    href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/styles/common.css">

</head>
<body>

<pre>
Config: /styles/** ==> /WEB-INF/resources/css/
----------------------------------------------
        /styles/common.css ==> /WEB-INF/resources/css/common.css
        /styles/path1/abc.css ==> /WEB-INF/resources/css/path1/abc.css
        /styles/path1/path2/abc.css ==> /WEB-INF/resources/css/path1/path2/abc.css
</pre>


    <div class="red-text">Red text</div>
    <br>
    <div class="green-text">Green text</div>
    <br>

    <input type="button" class="button" onclick="sayHello();"
        value="Click me!">

</body>
</html>

index.jsp

<html>
<body>
 
 <a href="staticResourceTest">staticResourceTest</a>
 
</body>
</html>

7. Run Application

In the first, before running the application you need to build the entire project.

Right-click the project and select:

Run Configurations:

Enter:

Name: Run SpringMVCResource
Base directory: ${workspace_loc:/SpringMVCResource}
Goals: tomcat7:run

Click Run:

Static Resource Test:

http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCResource/scripts/common.js

http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCResource/styles/common.css

http://localhost:8080/SpringMVCResource/staticResourceTest

Configure Static Resources in Spring MVC

1. The objective of the document

Eclipse 4.6 (NEON)

Spring 4 MVC