HTML page and Spring - html

Question

I create Simple MVC project in Spring. Defaultr generic a jsp pages. I try change jsp to html and i:
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</beans:bean>
replace this:
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".html" />
</beans:bean>
and create html page in views folder, but after changes and try run i have this error:
WARN : org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/myapp/WEB-INF/views/home.html] in DispatcherServlet with name 'appServlet'
Why i have this error? I only change jsp to html.

Answer 1

The InternalResourceViewResolverdoes not forward the request to the view folder. Instead it is responsible for selecting the 'jsp' (or what ever) according to the return value of an Controller(Method). Like
#RequestMapping("home")
public ModelAndView controllerMethodForHome(){
//will render /WEB-INF/views/homeView.html
return new ModelAndView("homeView");
}
with:
<beans:bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".html" />
</beans:bean>
will return the /WEB-INF/views/homeView.html for localhost:8080/myApp/home
Maybe the thing you want to use is the static resource mapping
<mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/resources/css/" />
Have a look at this question/answer for an example