The default servlet for Tomcat is declared in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml : <servlet> <servlet-name>default</servle... Therefore, static content is rendered by the default configuration unless you override it with your own definitions. If you want to allow directory listing, just change the listing parameter to true : <init-param> <param-name>listings</para... Change the welcome-file-list to display a default page in lieu of a directory listing: <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>home.xhtml</... Welcome pages are defined at the Web application level.

There are two steps to create a custom function for JSP: Declare the function in the TLD: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <taglib... Implement the function (must be static): package com.example; public class UrlTransl... To use the function: <%@ taglib uri="http://www.example.com/jsp/tags" p...

1. mvc:default-servlet-handler Configures a handler for serving static resources by forwarding to the Servlet container's default Servlet. Use of this handler allows using a "/" mapping with the DispatcherServlet while still utilizing the Servlet container to serve static resources. HandlerMapping: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping Handler: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping Attribute Description default-servlet-name The name of the default Servlet to forward to for static resource requests. The handler will try to auto-detect the container's default Servlet at startup time using a list of known names. If the default Servlet cannot be detected because of using an unknown container or because it has been manually configured, the servlet name must be set explicitly. 2. mvc:view-controller Defines a simple Controller that selects a view to render the response. HandlerMapping: org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping Handler: org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.ParameterizableViewController Attribute Description...

A. To configure Apache httpd to proxy Tomcat using HTTP: Load Apache httpd modules ( httpd.conf ): LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/m... Configure Apache httpd proxy: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@my... Configure Tomcat HTTP connector with appropriate proxyName and proxyPort : <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"... Note: context path must be the same for httpd and Tomcat. B. To configure Apache httpd to proxy Tomcat using AJP: Load Apache httpd modules ( httpd.conf ): LoadModule proxy_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/m... Configure Apache httpd proxy: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@my... Configure Tomcat AJP connector: <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirect... You can try this if context path must be changed between Tomcat and httpd: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@my... But this may not work in case the servlet context path is written in the HTML content. ProxyPassReverse only...

In my JSP there's a link like this: <a href="/path/${part1}/${part2}">the link</a> where part1 and part2 may contain characters that need to be URL encoded (such as '#'). JSP JSTL does not provide such facility out of the box. But there's a hack using <c:url> , or you can use <spring:url> : JSTL hack: <c:url value="/path" var="theUrl"> <c:param... Using Spring url tag: <spring:url value="/path/{part1}/{part2}" var="enc...

This is a bare bones Maven project to get started with Java JSR 303 bean validation. Directory structure: ./pom.xml ./src ./src/main ./src/main/jav... pom.xml : <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"... which includes dependencies on JUnit, Java bean validation API and the Hibernate validator reference implementation.

Mapping Java objects to Jackson JSON is pretty simple. But if you name a JSON field wrong, you'll get the "Unrecognized field ... (Class ...), not marked as ignorable" error. The rule for mapping a Java bean attribute name to a JSON field name is: lower all leading capital letters until the first lower case letter . For example, this Java class: package com.example; public class Person { ... maps to this JSON string: { "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "... Test code: package com.example; import java.net.URL; ...

flowplayer is another way to embed Flash in a web page. The code looks like this: <object width="6400" height="380" data="swf/flowpl... You need to download two swf files: http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.1.swf http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer.controls-3.2.0.swf

This example came from the jQuery validation documentation. The required rule can be used to validate a required selection box when you set the value of the first option to empty. <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <scrip... The error message is the title since no error message is specified. A more fully defined validation check would look like this: $('#my-form').validate({ errorElement: "p", ...

This is a simple Hello World application with Spring 3 MVC. Like the default Apache HTTPd welcome page, it displays " It works! " when successfully deployed. The sole purpose is to show the minimum elements needed to setup Spring 3 MVC. I use Maven since it's so much easier than downloading the dependencies manually. Directory layout: ./src ./src/main ./src/main/webapp ./src/... pom.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project... WEB-INF/web.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app... WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml (empty, but needed): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp : <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>H... Build with: mvn clean package The resulting webapp is target/springmvc.war .