Where to place images/CSS in spring-mvc app?

Question

I used Netbeans to create a Spring MVC 3.0 app. I have a simple controller and JSP view. The JSP view appears correctly except for an image that doesn\'t render. My direc

Answer 1

A bit old, but let me add my bit here. It is generally preferred to hide the .css/ .js files from direct public access by placing them into the main/java/webapp folder instead of the WEB-INF.

The reasons are explained very well in the posts below:

• What is WEB-INF used for in a Java web application?
• How to access css/js files in jsps, all of them are placed in WEB-INF?? (spring forum)