Thought I knew WAR structure: Spring MVC/JQuery (simple) path problem

[K Mansoor]

Folks- I'm stuck with this simple thing. I have a Hello World type Spring MVC based web app and I wanted to play with JQuery, but for the life of me, can't make it work, my jsp just won't 'see' the following:

<script src="/js/jquery-1.5.2.js"></script>

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("a#test2").click(function(event) {
       alert("Thanks for visiting!");       
       $(this).hide("slow");
    });
});
</script>

in my jsp:

<a id="test2"  rel="nofollow">click-me</a>

I have a feeling something is wrong with the WAR file structure, or do I have to do something Spring related to serve static content?

+root-of-war
WEB-INF/
---jsp/
------myjsp.jsp (this is where i access jquery)
js/
---jquery-1.5.2.js

Please help, I'm stuck since yesterday.
Thanks in advance.

[Bear Bibeault]

The URL is suspect. It should begin with the context path of the web app. What you have will only work if the web app happens to be the root context.

[K Mansoor]

I changed the URL to include the context:

<script src="/mycontext/js/jquery-1.5.2.js"></script>

This resulted in the following error:

15:29:41,443  WARN "http-bio-8080"-exec-124 servlet.PageNotFound:947 - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/mycontext/js/jquery-1.5.2.js] in DispatcherServlet with name 'mycontext'

changed the URL to:

<script src="/mycontext/resources/js/jquery-1.5.2.js"></script>

added

<mvc:resources mapping="/resources/**" location="/resources/" />

to mycontext-servlet.xml

changed dir structure to:

+root
resources/
---js/
------jquery-1.5.2.js

And it's working!

Thank you so much for putting me on the right path. I could never have figured it out.

[Bear Bibeault]

It'd also be best not to hardcode the context path. You can use:

${pageContext.request.contextPath}

to grab it programmatically.