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Migrating from AS4 to AS7 - Problem loading view templates

created by Neil Doshi in JBoss AS 7 Development - View the full discussion

I am migrating my spring mvc web app from AS4 to AS7.

The application is having a hard time finding my view templates (we are using velocity templates for our view).

This currently works fine in AS4 as is.

 

The project structure is as follows:

/

/src

   /com

    (etc...)

/WebContent

  /WEB-INF

    /velocity

     /login

      /login.vm

 

Here is an excerpt from my spring config file:

 

 

 

 

 

Stack Trace:

org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource '/WEB-INF/velocity/login/login.vm'

          org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.loadResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:483)

          org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getResource(ResourceManagerImpl.java:354)

          org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:1400)

          org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate(RuntimeInstance.java:1380)

          org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.getTemplate(VelocityEngine.java:401)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.getTemplate(VelocityView.java:535)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.getTemplate(VelocityView.java:520)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.checkTemplate(VelocityView.java:293)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityLayoutView.checkTemplate(VelocityLayoutView.java:122)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.velocity.VelocityView.initApplicationContext(VelocityView.java:258)

          org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:119)

          org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport.initApplicationContext(WebApplicationObjectSupport.java:69)

          org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport.setApplicationContext(ApplicationObjectSupport.java:73)

          org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.postProcessBeforeInitialization(ApplicationContextAwareProcessor.java:70)

          org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:350)

          org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1331)

          org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:341)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver.loadView(UrlBasedViewResolver.java:413)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractCachingViewResolver.createView(AbstractCachingViewResolver.java:159)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver.createView(UrlBasedViewResolver.java:378)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractCachingViewResolver.resolveViewName(AbstractCachingViewResolver.java:78)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.resolveViewName(DispatcherServlet.java:1215)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.render(DispatcherServlet.java:1164)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:902)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:807)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:571)

          org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:501)

          javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:734)

          javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:847)

 

 

 

 

I tried a few different options for the "prefix" property

  • /WEB-INF/velocity/
  • WEB-INF/velocity/
  • customerportal.war/WEB-INF/velocity/
  • com.odc.customerportal/WEB-INF/velocity/

 

 

 

I am able to reorganize the location of the files in the built war file if necessary.

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