Adding a custom page in spring roo

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Tetrax picture Tetrax · Apr 16, 2011 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

I have a question about spring roo.

How can you add a custom page to your web application? It seems really basic and easy if I'm using standard Servlet, but I'm totally confused to do this in Spring roo. All I want to have is a link in main page (with the menus etc) that links to my custom page.

I have tried to add a new Servlet to the application, setting its path mapping to /custompage. but when I access http://localhost:8080/myapp/custompage , it shows that the resource is unavailable.

I also can't add a link in the main page, I have tried to edit the menu.jspx directly and it fails.

Can anyone shed me light on this? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer

Constantiner picture Constantiner · Apr 16, 2011

First of all edit your {project_root}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/webmvc-config.xml and add new mvc:view-controller definition for your new page. Something like:

<mvc:view-controller path="/custompage" />

Then open {project_root}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/views.xml and add the following definition:

  <definition extends="public" name="custompage">
    <put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/custompage.jspx"/>
  </definition>

And add your custompage.jspx to the {project_root}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/ folder.

And then edit {project_root}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/views/menu.jspx and new menu:item with url="/custompage".

I think it should work.

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