I developed a sample maven project(reference link). Finally, it was not running as expected.
Here is the Project Structure.
Below is the code :
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
<display-name>Counter Web Application</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>cleanTempDirectory</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>welcome.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
mvc-dispatcher-servlet.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
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.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.mkyong.controller" />
<bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix">
<value>/WEB-INF/pages/</value>
</property>
<property name="suffix">
<value>.jsp</value>
</property>
</bean>
welcome.jsp
<h1>Welcome..!!!</h1>
<a href="/SampleProj/home.html">click</a>
<%-- <%request.getRequestDispatcher("/home.html").forward(request, response);%> --%>
home.jsp
<html>
<body>
<h1>Maven + Spring MVC Web Project Example</h1>
</body>
BaseController.java
@Controller
public class BaseController {
private static final String VIEW_INDEX = "home";
@RequestMapping(value = "home.html")
public String welcome(ModelMap model) {
model.addAttribute("message", "Welcome");
// Spring uses InternalResourceViewResolver and return back index.jsp
return VIEW_INDEX;
}
}
pom.xml
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.sample.java</groupId>
<artifactId>SampleProj</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>SampleProj Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<properties>
<jdk.version>1.8</jdk.version>
<spring.version>4.2.6.RELEASE</spring.version>
<jstl.version>1.2</jstl.version>
<junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
<logback.version>1.0.13</logback.version>
<jcl-over-slf4j.version>1.7.5</jcl-over-slf4j.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- Unit Test -->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>${junit.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Core -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
<version>${jcl-over-slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
<version>${logback.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- jstl -->
<dependency>
<groupId>jstl</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>${jstl.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>SampleProj</finalName>
<plugins>
<!-- Eclipse project -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9</version>
<configuration>
<!-- Always download and attach dependencies source code -->
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
<downloadJavadocs>false</downloadJavadocs>
<!-- Avoid type mvn eclipse:eclipse -Dwtpversion=2.0 -->
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- Set JDK Compiler Level -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>${jdk.version}</source>
<target>${jdk.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- For Maven Tomcat Plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat8-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<path>/SampleProj</path>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Output:
welcome page.
After click.,,
error page
I tried with all possible cases but no use at all. But other projects from another eclipse version and another workspace(same tomcat version) are working fine. I tried the same project with out maven(Adding jars from build path), its working. For maven its not happened as expected. I think, pom file was interrupted the flow. Is there any need to change eclipse settings.?(There is no errors in Show View(Problems)). Suggest me..
I think maven dependencies missing from deployment assembly. So add maven dependencies to your deployment assembly.
Project->Properties->Deployment assembly->Add->Java Build Path Entries->Maven Dependencies.
After above procedure restart your tomcat server.