Is that reason file can't get loaded?

[vw729]

Hi

The REST style of application doesn't have anything with the fact you're delegating to Tomcat's (specific) "default" servlet. Just remove the mapping to "default" servlet from your web.xml and everything will be fine.

Or look at the solution Spring-WebFlow (JS subproject) provides in the scope of resource provision (org.springframework.js.resource.ResourceServlet).

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek

What make you said so? As I had mentioned, the purpose of the configuration is for REST to exclude some paths. Otherwise, I get something like

No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/vsm/static/css/form.css] in DispatcherServlet with name ...

[Grzegorz Grzybek]

Hi

You get "No mapping found" error because the URL is mapped to your (single) DispatcherServlet. I can't figure out why, because your web.xml maps "/" to vsm servlet, and not "/*".

Generally it is not a good idea to map some URLs to Tomcat's specific servlet. Add another servlet mapping to "vsm" servlet with path "/rest/*" or something and get rid of "/static/*" mapping".

Standard Java EE servlets mapping are poor - there are only 3 kinds of mapping - "*.ext", "/path" or "/path/*". When you want some base path to be excluded from more general mapping, it's not that easy.
You may serve static resources from "/static/*" base path by mapping "application" requests by extension (e.g. *.do) or by <b>other</b> base path (e.g. "/app" or "/main", or something).

regards
Grzegorz Grzybek