Accessing resources in JSP page of Spring MVC app

Question

I am fairly new to spring and I am having issues with accessing my resources in my Spring mvc app. I have tried Google and using stack overflow to find an answer (none of th

Answer 1

You should place all of your static web content such as images, css and javascript in a resources directory under the webcontent (root directory) directory.

Then in myServlet-servlet.xml specify the directory as a resources directory. This will tell the dispatcher not to process requests for static resources.

In your jsp files you should then access these resources using a root relative url that relies upon the context path resolved by JSP EL.