I am a student working on the spring MVC framework. apologies in advance if this is a bad question
I am using maven for deployment to tomcat7 I understood the flow of which how springMVC works and I will try to explain it. Do correct any misunderstandings I have
the client request will hit web.xml first
In web.xml, URL-patterns is tied to a servletName(or DispatcherServlet) & that will map it to (by default) another xml named "[servletName]-servlet.xml" (i can also instantiate it if i want it to be of another name)
In [servletName]-servlet.xml, it will concatenate the prefix and suffix to the URL so that it becomes a filePath (eg. /WEB-INF/jsp/ + hello + .jsp) to locate the correct jspFile to render in client browser
A controller file (declared @Controller) acts as the backend and is invoked using @RequestMapping(URL)
Base on this flow, i type "localhost:8080/hello.jsp" (have also tried other URL mentioned below) but it still returns HTTP404
tomcat7 is running fine just that the jsp pages cant be found
I have tried editing the "url-patterns" in web.xml to "/" OR ".jsp" OR "hello.jsp" OR "hello" but to no avail
web.xml
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd" >
<web-app>
<display-name>to do list</display-name>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/HelloWeb-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloWeb</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloWeb</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
HelloWeb-servlet.xml
<beans xmlns = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package = "com.tutorialspoint" />
<bean class = "org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name = "prefix" value = "/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name = "suffix" value = ".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
hello.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello Spring MVC</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>${message}</h2>
</body>
</html>
HelloController.java
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/hello")
public class HelloController {
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String printHello(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Hello Spring MVC Framework!");
return "hello";
}
}
this is my file hierarchy
https://i.stack.imgur.com/msr7k.png
and this is the error
Try to use this code configuration for servlet. Do you try access to
http://localhost:8080/hello?