Paths in an Intellij Spring-project

Question

So I am currently working on a Spring-project in Intellij. In my JSP-view I have both JQuery, Bootstrap and some local css/js-files.

When I work on the pure HTML in WEBSTORM the paths are easy to interpreter as they just are relative. As far as I understand the paths in Spring are defined in a XML-file and everything goes from there.

My mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml has this:

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

And my files are organized like this:

• WEB-INF

  • css

    • bootstrap.css
    • login.css

  • js

    • All js files.js
  • pages
    • login.jsp
    • menu.jsp

How do i find the path? Have google like a hero and tried a lot but the files are not found Are there other files that rules over the path-hierarchy?:(:(

Example:

• <script src="relative-path/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

• <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="relative-path/css/login.css">

Answer 1

Assuming you are using maven:

• src/main

• java

• resources

• webapp

  • static
    • css
    • js
    • ...

Then the config..

<mvc:resources mapping="/static/**" location="/static/"/>

then you can use /css/main.css, something like this to access your resources in jsp

But there are different options out there, I will suggest you to read the document