Static HTML files issue in spring 3 - spring

Question

I all,
i have a spring application working with role based security. Application is working fine it's just i need to introduce some static HTML pages which will also be hosted in the same war. So if www.myapp.com/abc/work.jsp is my secure page then www.myapp.com/home.htm should show static html page. I have incorporated HTML files but issue is i am getting 404 on www.myapp.com/home.htm and www.myapp.com/abc/work.jsp works fine.
web.xml -
<display-name>guru</display-name>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/app-security-config.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>
org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy
</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/home.htm</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
My app-security-config.xml
<http auto-config="false" disable-url-rewriting="false" access-decision-manager-ref="accessDecisionManager"
entry-point-ref="authenticationProcessingFilterEntryPoint">
<custom-filter position="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER" ref="authenticationProcessingFilter" />
<custom-filter position="LOGOUT_FILTER" ref="customLogoutFilter"/>
<access-denied-handler error-page="/login.jsp?login_error=true"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/login.htm" filters="none" />
<intercept-url pattern="/abc/def/**" access="ROLE_USER"/>
<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="ROLE_ANONYMOUS" />
<anonymous enabled='true'/>
<session-management session-authentication-strategy-ref="sas"/>
<custom-filter position="CONCURRENT_SESSION_FILTER" ref="concurrencyFilter" />
</http>

Answer 1

Hi you should provide a mapping for static contents inside your dispatcher servlet configuration, something like:
<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/WEB-INF/" />
In this way, if your static home.htm content is located inside /WEB-INF/ folder you can reach it from the url /resources/home.htm.
This will avoid that spring intercept and redirect to a controller all paths starting with /resources reserving that path to static resources like images, css files, scripts and html static pages