Spring MVC application and static content updating

Question

Here's the deal. I've got a small Spring MVC web-application using static content in its work. Static content like .css or .jpg files is located in /RESOURCES directory and is available without any problems by way of using mvc:resources tag but I can't get an access to files, which were uploaded in the course of application working into /RESOURCES folder, without restarting the server. However I need them in my application. If anyone would help me with that please?)

Answer 1

The static resources were created to optimize the time these resources are served. And the optimization is made at build time, so it can't no reload automatically by definition.

https://spring.io/blog/2014/07/24/spring-framework-4-1-handling-static-web-resources