Since I spent a lot of time on this issue, I thought I'd share my solution. Since spring 3.0.4, there is a configuration parameter that is called <mvc:resources/> (more about that on the ) which can be used to serve static resources while still using the DispatchServlet on your site's root.

In order to use this, use a directory structure that looks like the following:

src/ springmvc/  web/   MyController.javaWebContent/  resources/   img/    image.jpg  WEB-INF/    jsp/      index.jsp    web.xml    springmvc-servlet.xml

The contents of the files should look like:

src/springmvc/web/HelloWorldController.java:

1 package springmvc.web; 2  3 import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; 4 import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; 5  6 @Controller 7 publicclassHelloWorldController{ 8  9  @RequestMapping(value="/")10  publicString index(){11   return"index";12  }13 }

 

WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml:

1 
      2 
     
       6  7  
      
        8   
       
        springmvc
        9   
       
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
       10   
       
        1
       11  
      12 13  
      
       14   
       
        springmvc
       15   
       
        /
       16  
      17 
     

 

WebContent/WEB-INF/springmvc-servlet.xml:

1 
      2 
     
      11 12     
      13  
      14 15     
      16  
      17 18     
      19  
      20  
      
       22  23 24     
       25  
       
        27   
        29   
        30   
        31  32 33 
       
      
     

 

WebContent/jsp/index.jsp:

1 <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>2 
Page with image
3 
     4 " />

 

Hope this helps :-)