Spring 3.0 MVC mvc:view-controller tag

Question

Here's a snippet of my mvc-config.xml

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>


<mvc:view-controller path="/index" view-name="welcome"/>    
<mvc:view-controller path="/static/login" view-name="/static/login"/>   
<mvc:view-controller path="/login" view-name="/static/login"/>

I have the welcome.jsp on /WEB-INF/view/ directory and login.jsp on /WEB-INF/view/static/.

This work for '/index' and '/login' paths. But I'm getting 404 response for '/static/login' when invoked from the browser. I'm expecting that '/static/login/' and '/login' should behave the same.

What could be wrong here?

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Here's the web.xml

http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>classpath*:META-INF/spring/applicationContext*.xml</param-value>
</context-param>


 <filter>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<!-- Enables clean URLs with JSP views e.g. /welcome instead of /app/welcome -->
<filter>
    <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>

 <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>


<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Handles all requests into the application -->
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/spring/*.xml
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<!-- Maps all /app requests to the DispatcherServlet for handling -->
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Spring MVC Dispatcher Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/app/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

and here is the urlrewrite.xml

<urlrewrite default-match-type="wildcard">
<rule>
    <from>/</from>
    <to>/app/welcome</to>
</rule>
<rule>
    <from>/static/**</from>
    <to last="true">/static/$1</to>
</rule>

<rule>
    <from>/**</from>
    <to last="true">/app/$1</to>
</rule>
<outbound-rule>
    <from>/app/**</from>
    <to>/$1</to>
</outbound-rule>    
</urlrewrite>

Environment: I'm using SpringSource tc Server Dev Edition v2.0
Spring version: 3.0.3.RELEASE

Answer 1

This is working fine for me, can you tell me what is your Dispatcher Servlet mappings? It would be nice if you can attach the entire web.xml content.

Answer 2

Request for /static/login can't get into your DispatcherServlet, because it matches the rewriting rule from /static/** to /static/$1 with last = "true", and therefore doesn't match the rule from /** to /app/$1, which leads to DispatcherServlet. See UrlRewriteFilter docs for more info.