spring mvc - InternalResourceViewResolver to resolve both JSP and HTML together

Question

I want org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver to resolve both JSP and HTML pages.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

You can configure an InternalResourceViewResolver something like this:

<bean id="viewResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

    <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/"/>
    <property name="suffix" value=""/>
</bean>

Where the WEB-INF/pages folder can contain both jsp and html pages and the suffix property is left empty.

Then in your controller, you can have methods that return html views and methods that return jsp views based on the suffix. For example, if index.html and index.jsp both exist in WEB-INF/pages you can do:

@RequestMapping("/htmlView")
public String renderHtmlView() {
    return "index.html";
}

@RequestMapping("/jspView")
public String renderJspView() {
    return "index.jsp";
}

However, as html pages are static and require no processing, you'd be better to use the <mvc:resources> tag rather than a view resolver for this type of page. See the docs for more info.