How to map requests to HTML file in Spring MVC?

Question

Basic configuration files looks unintuitive.

If I create simple hello world example, and then rename home.jsp to home.html and edit

Answer 1

You have this problem because there might not be any servlet registered for mapping *.html.
so the call ends up with the "default servlet", which is registered with a servlet-mapping of / which probably your DispatcherServlet is.
Now the Dispatcher servlet does not find a controller to handle request for home.html and hence the message that you are seeing.
To solve this problem you can register *.html extension to be handled by JSPServlet and then it should work cleanly.