spring & tiles - including .html files - html

Question

I've got a spring project using tiles as UI framework. I wanted to provide a generic controller handling static html files (no dynamic content - so no custom controllers). The generic controller is org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController. The whole thing works for if I put static content in .jsp extension files. As long as I try to put them in .html - I get 404 error and I want to figure out why.
web.xml:
<display-name>
lyricsBase
</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>lyricsBaseApp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>lyricsBaseApp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>list.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/WEB-INF/jsp/404.jsp</location>
</error-page>
lyricsBaseApp-servlet.xml:
<bean id="tilesConfigurer" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="tilesViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView" />
</bean>
<bean id="staticViewController" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController">
<property name="prefix" value="t." />
</bean>
<bean id="urlMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/list.html">jukeboxController</prop>
<prop key="/display.html">songController</prop>
<prop key="/static/about.html">staticViewController</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
tiles.xml:
<definition name="t.base" template="/WEB-INF/tiles/base.jsp">
<put-attribute name="title" value="SomeTitle"/>
</definition>
<definition name="t.static/about" extends="t.base">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/static/about.jsp"/>
<put-attribute name="title" expression="about"/>
</definition>
This is the URL I'm accessing the static page at: http://localhost:8084/lyricsBase/static/about.html
I've got both about.html and about.jsp files in the proper directory. If a
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/static/about.jsp"/>
to
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/static/about.html"/>
I start getting the warning in tomcat:
2013-02-16 18:21:45 org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet noHandlerFound
WARNING: No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/lyricsBase/WEB-INF/static/about.html] in DispatcherServlet with name 'lyricsBaseApp'
Why?

Answer 1

I know this question was asked 2 years ago, but I encountered the same problem and maybe sometime someone else.
I think Tiles only supports JSP, Freemarker or Velocity. I could find a workaround. Define a static handler like so:
#Configuration
#EnableWebMvc
#ComponentScan(value = "com.xy"))
public class WebConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
#Override
public void addResourceHandlers(final ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
registry.addResourceHandler("/lyricsBase/static/**")
.addResourceLocations("/WEB-INF/static/");
}
}
now you should be able to use your html template by tiles:
<put-attribute name="body" value="/lyricsBase/static/about.html"/>