Can anyone explain servlet mapping?

Question

I\'m trying to write a web application using SpringMVC. Normally I\'d just map some made-up file extension to Spring\'s front controller and live happily, but this time I\

Answer 1

For reference, the "failed attempt #2" is perfectly correct in version of Tomcat >= to 6.0.29.

It was the result of a Tomcat bug that get fixed in version 6.0.29:

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50026

  app
  /



  default
  /some-static-content-folder/*