Spring MVC 4 with mvc:resources not working

Question

I was trying to make a simple JAVA web application using Spring MVC. I tried to add CSS and JS files insides my resource folder which is located at /Webcontents/resources/ and webcontents/JS respectively. Accordingly I need to make some configuration in my servlet.xm l and include spring-webmvc inside this file. My servlet.xml is shown below :

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" 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-4.3.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.3.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.3.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="com.webrtc.controller" /> <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver"> <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" /> <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" /> <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /> <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" /> <mvc:resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" /> <mvc:annotation-driven /> </bean> </beans> 

My POM.xml is given below :

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>WebRTCProject</groupId>
  <artifactId>WebRTCProject</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <properties>
        <jdk.version>1.8</jdk.version>
        <spring.version>4.3.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
  </properties>
  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.6.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.8</source>
          <target>1.8</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0</version>
        <configuration>
          <warSourceDirectory>WebContent</warSourceDirectory>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
</project>

Once I build the project using Maven and try to run it on server using Tomcat which is added on Eclipse IDE, I am getting following errors :

  SEVERE: Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: 

Configuration problem: Cannot locate BeanDefinitionDecorator for element [resources] Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/webrtc-servlet.xml] at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.FailFastProblemReporter.fatal(FailFastProblemReporter.java:60) at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.fatal(ReaderContext.java:68) at org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.ReaderContext.fatal(ReaderContext.java:55) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.findDecoratorForNode(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:121) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.NamespaceHandlerSupport.decorate(NamespaceHandlerSupport.java:99) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.decorateIfRequired(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1448) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1435) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionPar serDelegate.decorateBeanDefinitionIfRequired(BeanDefinitionParserDelegate.java:1415) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.processBeanDefinition(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:301) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:190) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:169) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.doRegisterBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:142) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:94) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:508) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader. doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:392) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:336) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:304) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:181) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:217) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:188) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:125) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableAppl icationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:129) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:613) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:514) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.configureAndRefreshWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:668) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:634) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.createWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:682) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initWebApplicationContext(FrameworkServlet.java:553) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.initServletBean(FrameworkServlet.java:494) at org.springframework.web.servlet.HttpServletBean.init(HttpServletBean.java:138) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1183) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1099) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:989) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:4931) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5241) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1419) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1409) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

My other confiurations are as below:

Windows 10

Eclipse IDE

Spring 4.3.7

JAVA SDK 1.8

Tomcat 8.5

I tried different solutions to fix the issue like versioning issues, changing servlet.xml file etc but could not able to solve the issue.

Anyone knows how can I solve this issue ?

Any help or suggestion would be highly appreciated! In case you need more details about project I will be able to provide you more details.

Answer 1

My servlet.xml is shown below

The configuration /WEB-INF/webrtc-servlet.xml has errors. Either remove this file or fix errors there.

And these elements should be outside the bean definition

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