Spring MVC http 404 not found, any ideas how? - spring

Question

http://localhost:8080/AnchorMail/ works and goes to the index.jsp as it should.
http://localhost:8080/AnchorMail/greeting causes a HTTP status 404 not found.
It should be going to a hello JSP page, I believe. I'm new to this and any help would be so appreciated. Thank you.
the controller below
#Controller
public class HelloController {
#RequestMapping(value="/greeting")
public String sayHello(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("greeting","Hello World");
return "hello";
}
}
servlet-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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.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-3.2.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.Controller"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
</beans>
web.xml below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>anchorMailServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/config/servlet-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>anchorMailServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
</web-app>
Pom.xml below
<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>AnchorMail</groupId>
<artifactId>AnchorMail</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>AnchorMail Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>AnchorMail</finalName>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

Look at this configuration element:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>anchorMailServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Pay attention to the configuration that you created.
Requests that end in *.html are forwarded to your spring dispatcher servlet.
http://localhost:8080/AnchorMail/greeting does not end in .html
Also, try changing the url-pattern to /*.html.

Answer 2

#RequestMapping(value="/greeting.html")
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/"/> //other name then >>jsp
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>