How to handle static content in Spring MVC?

Question

I am developing a webapp using Spring MVC 3 and have the DispatcherServlet catching all requests to \'/\' like so (web.xml):

Answer 1

For java based spring configuration you can use the following

Using ResourceHandlerRegistry which stores registrations of resource handlers for serving static resources.

More Info @ WebMvcConfigurerAdapter which defines callback methods to customize the Java-based configuration for Spring MVC enabled via @EnableWebMvc.

@EnableWebMvc
@Configurable
@ComponentScan("package.to.scan")
public class WebConfigurer extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addResourceHandler("/static_resource_path/*.jpg").addResourceLocations("server_destination_path");

    }