Spring MVC Serve HTML JSP Page
In this demo you will see how to return either static HTML or JSP page from Spring MVC application. Please follow steps below:
Summary: To return either html or jsp page from spring mvc don’t include InternalResourceViewResolver bean to return particular extension with page as shown in example below where it says: include suffix with all the resources when we return page from spring controller:
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value> </property> <property name="suffix"> <value>.jsp</value> </property> </bean>
Note: As you will see in below example we have removed InternalResourceViewResolver bean form dispatcher-servlet.xml file and adding page with extension from spring mvc controller.
Steps:
- Create maven project name: SpringMVCHTMLReturn
- Final project structure:
- dispatcher-servlet.xml:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.javahonk.controller" />
</beans>- SpringMVCController:
package com.javahonk.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
@Controller
public class SpringMVCController {
@RequestMapping(value="/helloWorld.web",method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String printWelcome(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Successful");
return "/static/index.html";
//return "index.jsp";
}
}
- index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Spring MVC Serve HTML</title> </head> <body> <h2>Spring MVC Serve HTML Successful</h2> </body> </html>
- Web page output:
- To return JSP page from controller change controller code as below:
package com.javahonk.controller;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.ModelMap;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
@Controller
public class SpringMVCController {
@RequestMapping(value="/helloWorld.web",method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String printWelcome(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Successful");
//return "/static/index.html";
return "index.jsp";
}
}
- Web page output:
For more information please read Spring MVC tutorial here.
Download Project: SpringMVCHTMLReturn
