How to map WEB-INF to local directory

[pohkuo]

Hi, my project is to migrate our application from struts to spring MVC.
In struts we can map WEB-INF to a local path for all JSP files
<mount uriBase="/WEB-INF/" filePath="/app/tomcat/webinf/jsp/" />

I am wondering how do I do similar mapping in spring MVC?

Thanks.

[skram]

To display and map a JSP from the WEB-INF folder, you must declare a ViewResolver.

For example:

<?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:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
	   		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd">

	<bean id="jspViewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver" 
    		p:prefix="/WEB-INF/jsp/" p:suffix=".jsp" p:order="1"/>
    		
</beans>

Take note, there are different resolvers you can use depending on your needs.

Assuming you have a URL /welcome and you want to map it to WEB-INF/jsp/welcome.jsp, your controller must have the following signature:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class MediatorController {
	
	@RequestMapping("/welcome")
	public String getPage() {
		return "welcome";	
	}
}

Of course, I have purposely remove some configuration files in this example.