Where do CSS and JavaScript files go in a Maven web app project?

Question

I am switching to use Maven for my Spring web app projects and I am running into a simple issue. I am not sure where to put the CSS and JS files in the new project structure

Answer 1

I was faced with the same question in a maven project. There seems to be no good answer to my problem. So I did a simple experiment and it worked perfectly.

This is a simple maven project, I have the following directory structure: (Irrelevant directories are not shown)

───src
   └───main
       ├───java
       ├───resources
       └───webapp
           ├───javascript
           │   ├───test.js
           │   ├───example.js
           │   └───jquery-library.js
           ├───WEB-INF
           │    └───web.xml
           └───example.jsp

My JSP pages can refer to my javascript libraries simply as

There is no need for any special configuration.