Spring MVC static page - spring-mvc

Question

following situation: I am developing a web application with Spring Roo 1.1 (Apache Tiles & Spring MVC). I want to have an admin section where each entity is reachable via the paths (/admin/users, /admin/roles, ...)
So far everything is working fine. The only problem is, that I want to have a static page on /admin. Since I don't want to create an own controller I've added in webmvc-config.xml:
<mvc:view-controller path="/admin" view-name="admin/index" />
Also in directory WEB-INF/views/admin/views.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE tiles-definitions PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Tiles Configuration 2.1//EN" "http://tiles.apache.org/dtds/tiles-config_2_1.dtd">
<tiles-definitions>
<definition extends="default" name="admin/index">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/admin/index.jspx"/>
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
I also did not forget to create an index.jspx.
Contents of web.xml:
<display-name>reservation</display-name>
<description>Roo generated reservation application</description>
<!-- Enable escaping of form submission contents -->
<context-param>
<param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath*:META-INF/spring/applicationContext*.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.orm.jpa.support.OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>Spring OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Handles Spring requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>reservation</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/webmvc-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>reservation</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>10</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<error-page>
<exception-type>java.lang.Exception</exception-type>
<location>/uncaughtException</location>
</error-page>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/resourceNotFound</location>
</error-page>
Unfortunately when requesting /admin I get a resource not found error.
Can somebody give me a hint on that?

Answer 1

Please make sure that you have <mvc:annotation-driven /> defines in your XML config.