Question

I’m new to spring MVC. My problem is that @PathVariable causes 404 “The requested resource () is not available“.

For example this works fine for URL http://localhost:8080/Spring/list

@RequestMapping(value = "/list")
    public String list() {
        return "WEB-INF/views/list.jsp";
    }

But this return 404 for url http://localhost:8080/Spring/list/foo

@RequestMapping(value = "/list/{nameId}")
    public String list(@PathVariable("nameId") String nameId) {
        return "WEB-INF/views/list.jsp";
    }

What is wrong? Thanks for your answers

Answer 1

The error message says it all. Since it’s a hierarchical path it’s looking in /list/WEB-INF/etc...; try an absolute path to the JSP to avoid that issue.

It’s a bit counter-intuitive, I suppose.