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