Tomcat serving static content

Question

I have a Spring app and I\'m wondering the best way to serve static content. I have tried the following:

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Answer 1

There are several better ways to serve static content.

The traditional approach was to use a UrlRewriteFilter to remap URLs as follows:

web.xml:

    UrlRewriteFilter
    org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter


    UrlRewriteFilter
    /*

...

    Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet
    /app/*

urlrewrite.xml:

    
        /images/**
        /images/$1
    
    
        /scripts/**
        /scripts/$1
    
    
        /styles/**
        /styles/$1
    
    
        /**
        /app/$1
    

This approach can be seen in the most of Spring samples.

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Spring 3.0.1 introduced a newer apporach - it can serve static content via DispatcherServlet. It can be configured using element in Spring's config file. In Spring 3.0.4 it was extended with support of multiple location and cache control options, see 15.12.4 mvc:resources.