Spring DsipatcherServlet Mapping

refer to spring in action third edtion (7.1.2)

 

we must indicate what URLs will be handled by the
DispatcherServlet. It's common to find DispatcherServlet mapped to
URL patterns like "*.htm", "/*", or "/app". However, there are a few problems with
these URL patterns:

 

The "*.htm" pattern implies that the response will always be in HTML form (which, as
we'll learn in chapter 11, isn't necessarily the case).

Mapping it to "/*" doesn't imply any specify type of response, but it indicates that
DispatcherServlet will serve all requests. That makes serving static content such as
images and stylesheets more difficult than necessary.

 

The "/app" pattern (or something similar) helps us distinguish DispatcherServlet
-served content from other types of content. But then we have an implementation detail
(specifically, the "/app" path) exposed in our URLs. That leads to complicated URL
rewriting tactics to hide the "/app" path).

 

Rather than use any of those flawed servlet-mapping schemes, I prefer mapping
DispatcherServlet like this:
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spitter</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

 

 

<mvc:resources> handles requests for static content for you

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd"> <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> </beans>