Spring MVC: How to resolve the path to subdirectories of the root 'JSP' folder in a web application

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Published on 2009-11-23T21:09:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 11:51 UTC
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What is a simple way to resolve the path to a JSP file that is not located in the root JSP directory of a web application using SpringMVCs viewResolvers? For example, suppose we have the following web application structure:

web-app
  |-WEB-INF
    |-jsp
      |-secure
        |-admin.jsp
        |-admin2.jsp
      index.jsp
      login.jsp

I would like to use some out-of-the-box components to resolve the JSP files within the jsp root folder and the secure subdirectory. I have a *-servlet.xml file that defines:

an out-of-the-box, InternalResourceViewResolver:

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

a handler mapping:

<bean id="handlerMapping" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
 <property name="mappings">
  <props>
   <prop key="/index.htm">urlFilenameViewController</prop>
   <prop key="/login.htm">urlFilenameViewController</prop>
   <prop key="/secure/**">urlFilenameViewController</prop>
  </props>
 </property>
</bean>

an out-of-the-box UrlFilenameViewController controller:

<bean id="urlFilenameViewController" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController">
</bean>

The problem I have is that requests to the JSPs in the secure directory cannot be resolved, as the jspViewResolver only has a prefix defined as /jsp/ and not /jsp/secure/.

Is there a way to handle subdirectories like this? I would prefer to keep this structure because I'm also trying to make use of Spring Security and having all secure pages in a subdirectory is a nice way to do this.

There's probably a simple way to acheive this but I'm new to Spring and the Spring MVC framework so any pointers would be appreciated.

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