Spring 3 MVC resources and tag <mvc:resources />

Found the error:

Final xxx-servlet.xml config:

<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

Image in src/webapp/resources/logo.png

Works!

<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**"
               location="/, classpath:/WEB-INF/public-resources/"
               cache-period="10000" />

Put the resources under: src/main/webapp/images/logo.png and then access them via /resources/images/logo.png.

In the war they will be then located at images/logo.png. So the first location (/) form mvc:resources will pick them up.

The second location (classpath:/WEB-INF/public-resources/) in mvc:resources (looks like you used some roo based template) can be to expose resources (for example js-files) form jars, if they are located in the directory WEB-INF/public-resources in the jar.

Recommendations for resources in order to handle HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by offering static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory is to simply add the following line in the configuration file:

<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

It has worked for me.

Sources (Spring in Action book and http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html)