Spring configuration beans static resources mapping and url's mapping?

Question

I just started with spring framework and i have a problem with my spring beans configurations. To load my static resources such as css, js, etc. i had to put the following line: <mvc:resources mapping=”/resources/**” location=”/resources/” /> in my spring bean configuration:

My problem is that if i put this line, for some reason all url's of my application are not mapped when i deploy my application. When i comment this line all the url's application are working just fine, but of course my static resources are not mapped.

I need some tips on how should i tackle this problem. Thank you !. Also this is all my spring-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"  
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">


    <context:component-scan base-package="com.application" />
    <!-- Mapping the static resources -->
     <mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

    <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/views/" />
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>

    <!-- Unimportant for my problem -->
    <!-- Bean used for login from userDao(repository) -->
    <bean id="customUserDetailsService" class="com.application.service.CustomUserDetailsService"></bean>

    <!-- Setup the userDao(repository) -->
    <bean id="userDao" class="com.application.model.UserDAO" />

    <!-- Declared datasource bean -->
    <bean id="dataSource"
        class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
        <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost/licenta" />
        <property name="username" value="root" />
        <property name="password" value="" />
    </bean>

</beans>

Answer 1

You need to add <mvc:annotation-driven /> to your spring-config.xml

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