Static content problem

[kikol]

Hi gurus,
I'm completely new to web technologies and try to write my first Spring MVC application. I have following problem:
My project has following structure:
- WEB-iNF

classes - compuled java code (controllers etc.)

views - jsp pages

lib - Spring and other libraries

css - folder with my css files

I use <mvc:resources> in following way:

<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/css/" cache-period="31556926" />

My understanding here is that I "map" /resources to /css directory.
I run my application using Glassfish server (ver. 3.1.2) and see in the log following enrty:

Mapped URL path [/resources/**] onto handler 'org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler#0'

It seems to be OK. Next I'll try to use my css file within jsp using:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<s:url value="/resources/main.css" />" type="text/css">

where s points to :

<%@ taglib prefix="s" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags"%>

And this doesn't work without any information. I'll try to get access to main.css file directly from the browser but always get HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource is not available. Any help will be very appreciated.

[sbirnie]

Your css directory should go under /src/main/webapp/resources, not web-inf (assuming you're using a maven project directory format).

[kikol]

Hi,
You're right I have MAVEN project nad move folder as you mentioned but it doesn't help
I suspect that something is wrong with jsp page. when I look at page source (from browser side) following code is displayed:

 <link rel="stylesheet" href="/RPC/resources/main.css" type="text/css">

My jsp file looks like

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<s:url value="/resources/main.css" />" type="text/css">

It seems that phrase /resources/main.css is not mapped to /css/main.css as I expect.

[sbirnie]

Did you move the whole css directory under resources? If so your url would be "<s:url value="/resources/css/main.css"

[kikol]

Yes I move whole css directory. I change s:url tag but without success. I thought that mvc:resources tag mapps all static content to /css directory directly.