Spring cannot resolve JSP view

Question

I've got a Tomcat deployment with a single webapp living inside web/WEB-INF. Here is the way I'm instantiating the spring container:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>report</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            /WEB-INF/report-servlet.xml
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>report</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The report-servlet.xml file is found, loaded and parsed properly.

However, my JSP views do not resolve. Here is my resolver:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
    <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>

I have the root URL mapped to /welcome:

<!-- Forwards requests to the "/" resource to the "welcome" view -->
<mvc:view-controller path="/" view-name="welcome"/>

And this view is found and delegated to the InternalResourceViewResolver when I request http://localhost/, but the .jsp is not found:

[org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView] (http-11080-1) Rendering view with name 'welcome' with model null and static attributes {}
[org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceView] (http-11080-1) Forwarding to resource [/WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp] in InternalResourceView 'welcome'
[org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] (http-11080-1) Bound request context to thread: org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest@10ea443f
[org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] (http-11080-1) DispatcherServlet with name 'report' processing GET request for [//WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp]
[org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] (http-11080-1) Testing handler map [org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping@4ab83be0] in DispatcherServlet with name 'report'
[org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping] (http-11080-1) No handler mapping found for [/WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp]
[org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] (http-11080-1) Testing handler map [org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping@2c1533c8] in DispatcherServlet with name 'report'
[org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping] (http-11080-1) No handler mapping found for [/WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp]
[org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] (http-11080-1) Testing handler map [org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping@4268cc6] in DispatcherServlet with name 'report'
[org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping] (http-11080-1) No handler mapping found for [/WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp]

And the contents of WEB-INF/views:

# ls -l WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp 
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 1.2K 2011-05-24 15:43 WEB-INF/views/welcome.jsp

Why would the container have no problem finding the Spring xml file containing my beans, but not be able to resolve the directory containing my JSPs?

what is the url you're using? localhost:8080/welcome ? I think you need to make you're url-pattern /*, not /. — Kevin
@Kevin: I updated my post to include more information. The root URL is found and mapped to the the resolver, but then that resolver doesn't load my JSP. — purecharger

Vijay Shanker Dubey Vijay Shanker Dubey · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-25T06:12:53

Following URL mapping will redirect all the requests to the report servlet. But You must not have set up handlers for the JSP files in your dispatcher servlet configurations.

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>report</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

To achieve what you want to you must specify the URl pattern that should be redirected to the report servlet. This must exclude JSp files.

I will suggest you to specify something like a prefix to your URLs. Only those URLs will be handled by the Spring Dispatcher Servlet. As shown in the below example.

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>report</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/report/*</url-pattern>
 </servlet-mapping>

Now, all the URlL with /report/<something> will be handled by Spring webmvc. This servlet(report) will bot be applied to the URLs ending with *.jsp.

Spring cannot resolve JSP view

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