Way to map Spring viewresolver to html file - html

Question

I am doing project on Spring MVC with html file as viewResolver. Already my project done in ftl (freemarker template) files as viewResolver perfectly. But I want to do conversion of all ftl files into html files. Hence I have tried hard for two days and do some configuration changes in view resolver like below, but nothing worked.
My original code in applicationContext.xml
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver">
<property name="cache" value="true" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".ftl" />
<property name="exposeSpringMacroHelpers" value="true" />
<property name="exposeRequestAttributes" value="true" />
<property name="allowRequestOverride" value="false" />
<property name="exposeSessionAttributes" value="true" />
<property name="allowSessionOverride" value="false" />
<property name="exposePathVariables" value="true" />
<property name="requestContextAttribute" value="rc" />
</bean>
I have made some changes like below
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".html" />
</bean>
My DispatcherServlet configuration
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value></param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
My html files are in "/WEB-INF/views/" folder. What changes I need to do to run the html files. Any alternate way also warmly welcome. Thanks in advance guys...

Answer 1

HTML pages meant for implementing static views, we have great feature in spring to render the static resources like html, css and images i.e.
<mvc:resources mapping="/static/**" location="/WEB-INF/static/" />
Similar question asked here SpringViewResolver for HTML views

Answer 2

================================ SOLUTION ========================================
Newly created Folder structure:
WEB-INF
`-static
|-html
`-index.html
Spring config:
<resources mapping="/static/**" location="/WEB-INF/static/" />
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".html" />
</beans:bean>
My web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value></param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Controller method:
#RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String homePage(ModelMap model, HttpServletRequest servletRequest, HttpServletResponse response) {
String returnText = "static/html/index";
return returnText;
}
I have searched and implemented various ways. Its now working like a boss.
Below link helped me and stiched my time a lot. Also need to work various html files with this solution.
Spring MVC ViewResolver not mapping to HTML files