Spring-Jersey : How to return static content?

Question

Question :

1. How do I expose my css/, images/, js/ and other static files?
2. How do I return a JS

Answer 1

"How do I expose my css/, images/, js/ and other static files?"

The jersey.config.servlet.filter.staticContentRegex property should work, but you need to specify all the possible patterns for all the types of files you want to serve. The easier way is to just use the property jersey.config.servlet.filter.forwardOn404, as pointed out in this answer. And yes with both choices, you need configure Jersey as a filter, rather than a servlet. So your web.xml might look like

    Jersey
    org.glassfish.jersey.servlet.ServletContainer
    
        javax.ws.rs.Application
        com.component.ResourceRegister
    
    
    
        jersey.config.servlet.filter.forwardOn404
        true
    



    /*
    Jersey

"How do I return a JSP page in my controller (not a String method) for my index view?"

First thing you need is the jsp mvc dependency

    org.glassfish.jersey.ext
    jersey-mvc-jsp
    2.25

Then you need to register the feature

public ResourceRegister () {
    ...
    register(JspMvcFeature.class);
}

Then you need to specify the template base path for all your jsp pages. For example I used /WEB-INF/jsp

public ResourceRegister () {
    ...
    property(JspMvcFeature.TEMPLATE_BASE_PATH, "/WEB-INF/jsp");
}

So for this case, all the jsp files should be located in /WEB-INF/jsp directory.

Example jsp and controller

index.jsp

    
        
        
        
    
    
        
${it.hello} ${it.world}
    

Controller

@Path("/")
public class HomeController {

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
    public Viewable index() {
        Map model = new HashMap<>();
        model.put("hello", "Hello");
        model.put("world", "World");
        return new Viewable("/index", model);
    }
}

public ResourceRegister () {
    ...
    register(HomeController.class);
}

Here the /index in the Viewable points the index.jsp (we don't need the .jsp extension). Jersey knows how to find the file from the property we set above.

See Also:

• Complete example from Jersey project
• MVC Templates documentation