Spring not accessing JSP inside /WEB-INF/jsp/ folder - spring

Question

I am new to Spring MVC and developing an application. I developed a project with the help of Spring MVC Tutorial.Initially, it was working. But as soon as I upgraded my project with Hibernate 4 and Spring 4. It stopped working. Whenever, I am invoking any \WEB-INF\jsp, I am getting 404 Error.
Files
LoginController
public class LoginController {
#RequestMapping(value="/login", method=RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView showLoginPage(String path, ModelMap model){
ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("login");
model.addAttribute("welcome to Flight Services", "welcomeMessage");
return mv;
}
}
Spring-servlet.xml
<beans ......-mvc-4.0.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"></property>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
applicationContext.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:lang="http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang http://www.springframework.org/schema/lang/spring-lang.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">
<context:annotation-config/>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
p:location="/WEB-INF/jdbc.properties">
</bean>
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close"
p:driverClassName="${jdbc.driverClassName}"
p:url="${jdbc.databaseurl}"
p:username="${jdbc.username}"
p:password="${jdbc.password}">
</bean>
<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
<property name="configLocation">
<value>classpath:hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">${jdbc.dialect}</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"></tx:annotation-driven>
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>
</beans>
web.xml
<display-name>AirportService</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
index.jsp
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%#include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<c:redirect url="/home" />
</body>
</html>
Now everytime, I am launching my index page. I am getting this error
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /index.jsp (line: 3, column: 5) File "/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" not found
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:42)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:443)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:133)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.processIncludeDirective(Parser.java:322)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseIncludeDirective(Parser.java:357)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseDirective(Parser.java:467)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parseFileDirectives(Parser.java:1779)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:135)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.doParse(ParserController.java:242)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParserController.parseDirectives(ParserController.java:119)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:193)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:373)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:353)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:340)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:646)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:357)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:728)

Answer 1

You are trying to load some file "/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp", that does not exist. In your index.jsp file you have the line:
<%#include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>
According to the error logs, this file does not exist. Are you sure it is in the correct directory?

Answer 2

Anyways, I downgraded spring and Hibernate versions to 3.x and it is working. Seems like I am missing a trick here with version 4.

Answer 3

If i am correct, your index.jsp is outside your WEB-INF and the resource you are trying to access is inside WEB-INF. Remember that the resources outside your WEB-INF (like images, HTMLs and other static HTML stuff) cannot access the content present in WEB-INF.
So you cannot do <%#include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>
You can do this:
<%#include file="include.jsp" %> where both include.jsp and index.jsp are in the same location within or outside WEB-INF.
(Optional) In your web.xml
replace <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> to <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern> .htm can be replaced with any extension that you are interested in