Adding styles to a simple maven project

Question

I have created a simple maven web app project:

mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.stsd.project -DartifactId=my-project -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DinteractiveMode=false

I want this project to be a simple Servlet project integerated with maven So I don't want to use spring-mvc and so on.. wanna keep it as simple as possible.

I have all my resources including of css files in my-project/src/main/resources

Now I want to link css files to my front-ends.. but after deploying the project to a tomcat server I can only see messy layout with no css style. I just wonder if I really need to have a servlet-context.xml for this to see css styles in front view?

Answer 1

If you put a file under /resources it ends up in my-project.war/my-project.war/WEB-INF/classes/ . This is where things go in your classpath . Instead, you should put the css file under /webapp . This will make them go under my-project.war/ . These files will now be directly accessible by going to

http://localhost:8080/test.css