Http Status 404: Servlet ViewResolver - spring

Question

I am creating a Spring-boot application to perform crud operations using hibernate.
I have mentioned the Dispatcher servlet in the web-xml by the name servlet-context in appservlet in spring in WEB-INF.
heres my web.xml config
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Processes application requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/servlet-context.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>appServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
and I have mentioned all the beans , view-resolver in the dispatcher-servlet
heres the servlet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
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
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd">
<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing
infrastructure -->
<!-- Enables the Spring MVC #Controller programming model -->
<annotation-driven />
<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving
up static resources in the ${webappRoot}/resources directory -->
<resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />
<!-- Resolves views selected for rendering by #Controllers to .jsp resources
in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<beans:bean
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<beans:property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<beans:property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<beans:property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
<beans:property name="url"
value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db1" />
<beans:property name="username" value="root" />
<beans:property name="password" value="neonowl" />
</beans:bean>
<!-- Hibernate 4 SessionFactory Bean definition -->
<beans:bean id="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<beans:property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<beans:property name="annotatedClasses">
<beans:list>
<beans:value>com.journaldev.spring.model.Person</beans:value>
</beans:list>
</beans:property>
<beans:property name="hibernateProperties">
<beans:props>
<beans:prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</beans:prop>
<beans:prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</beans:prop>
</beans:props>
</beans:property>
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="personDAO" class="com.journaldev.spring.dao.PersonDAOImpl">
<beans:property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" />
</beans:bean>
<beans:bean id="personService" class="com.journaldev.spring.service.PersonServiceImpl">
<beans:property name="personDAO" ref="personDAO"></beans:property>
</beans:bean>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.journaldev.spring" />
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
<beans:bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<beans:property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernate4AnnotatedSessionFactory" />
</beans:bean>
</beans:beans>
My jsp page 'person.jsp' is in the views folder inside WEB-INF. Now when i run the application on server I'm getting Http status 404
message /projectname/
description: The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.
Please help debug this.

Answer 1

From this baeldung tutorial, we have the followint:
Spring MVC architecture uses ViewResolvers internally to handle views, which enable you to render models in the browser.
The ViewResolver maps view names to actual views.
And the Spring framework comes with quite a few view resolvers e.g. InternalResourceViewResolver, XmlViewResolver, ResourceBundleViewResolver
Regarding your issue:
You need a ViewResolver bean to be present in your application context and register it via:
#Bean
public ViewResolver configureViewResolver() {
InternalResourceViewResolver viewResolve = new InternalResourceViewResolver();
viewResolve.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/jsp/");
viewResolve.setSuffix(".jsp");
return viewResolve;
}
And respect the mode in which this ViewResolver maps internal resources to external URLs(well documented here