Serving Static resources from file system | Spring Boot Web

Question

Using a Spring Boot web application I trying to serve my static resource from a file system folder outside my project.

Folder structure looks like:-

Answer 1

Spring Boot Maven Plugin can add extra directories to the classpath. In your case you could include that in your pom.

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-maven-plugin
    ${spring.boot.version}
    
        
            ${project.build.directory}/../ext-resources
        

        ...
    

So that way you don't need inlcude any hard-code in your classes. Simply start your webapp with

mvn spring-boot:run