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Migrating from AS4 to AS7 - Problem loading view templates
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I am migrating my spring mvc web app from AS4 to AS7.</p><p>The application is having a hard time finding my view templates (we are using velocity templates for our view).</p><p>This currently works fine in AS4 as is.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The project structure is as follows:</p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">/</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> /src</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">   /com</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">    (etc...)<br/></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;"> /WebContent</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">  /WEB-INF</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">    /velocity</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">     /login</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'courier new', courier;">      /login.vm<br/></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Here is an excerpt from my spring config file:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>  </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Stack Trace:</p><p>org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource '/WEB-INF/velocity/login/login.vm'</p><p>          org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.loadResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:483)</p><p>          org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:354)</p><p>          org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:1400)</p><p>          org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:1380)</p><p>          org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.getTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:401)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.getTemplate(VelocityView.java:535)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.getTemplate(VelocityView.java:520)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.checkTemplate(VelocityView.java:293)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityLayoutView.checkTemplate(VelocityLayoutView.java:122)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.initApplicationContext(VelocityView.java:258)</p><p>          org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:119)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(WebApplicationObjectSupport.java:69)</p><p>          org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.setApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:73)</p><p>          org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:70)</p><p>          org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:350)</p><p>          org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1331)</p><p>          org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:341)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver.loadView(UrlBasedViewResolver.java:413)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractCachingViewResolver.createView(AbstractCachingViewResolver.java:159)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver.createView(UrlBasedViewResolver.java:378)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractCachingViewResolver.resolveViewName(AbstractCachingViewResolver.java:78)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.resolveViewName(DispatcherServlet.java:1215)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1164)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:902)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:807)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571)</p><p>          org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:501)</p><p>          javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734)</p><p>          javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I tried a few different options for the "prefix" property</p><ul><li><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff;">/WEB-INF/velocity/</span></li><li><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WEB-INF/velocity/</span></li><li><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">customerportal.war/WEB-INF/velocity/</span></li><li><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">com.odc.customerportal/WEB-INF/velocity/</span></li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I am able to reorganize the location of the files in the built war file if necessary.</p></div>
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