What are the conventional locations for for JSPs, JavaScript, CSS, Images in Maven web projects?

Question

I need to convert a traditional J2EE web application into a new Maven web project. In traditional project JSPs are under WebApp/jsps folder, JavaScript & CS

Answer 1

In a Maven project, firstly, you must add

or

to your servlet-config.xml file (it is spring-servlet.xml in my project).

After that, construct a folder "resources" if it doesnt't exist under src/main/webapp. Put your CSS folder that contains CSS files, images folder that contains image files under the folder resources.

Now you can access any file under resources folder from a JSP file as:

or

My spring-servlet.xml file:

Project skeleton:

src
--main
  --webapp
    --resources
      --css+
      --images+
--target

...etc