My handler forwards to internalresourceview 'apiForm' but then i get error 404 RequestURI=/WEB-INF/pages/apiForm.jsp. I'm sure apiForm.jsp located in /WEB-INF/pages/
13:45:02,034 DEBUG [org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView] - Forwarding to resource [/WEB-INF/pages/apiForm.jsp] in InternalResourceView 'apiForm'
13:45:02,035 DEBUG [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - DispatcherServlet with name 'testapp2' determining Last-Modified value for [/WEB-INF/pages/apiForm.jsp]
13:45:02,038 DEBUG [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - No handler found in getLastModified
13:45:02,038 DEBUG [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - DispatcherServlet with name 'testapp2' processing request for [/WEB-INF/pages/apiForm.jsp]
13:45:02,038 WARN [org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound] - No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/WEB-INF/pages/apiForm.jsp] in DispatcherServlet with name 'testapp2'
13:45:02,045 DEBUG [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - Successfully completed request
13:45:02,048 DEBUG [org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet] - Successfully completed request
this is how my dispatcher.xml look like..
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
Looks like DispatcherServlet is trying to process the request for apiForm.jsp, which suggests to me that your web.xml servlet-mapping is directing requests for that space to DispatcherServlet.
You might have something like this?
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet>dispatcher</servlet>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Try calling your controllers with a different extension (.do for example) and update the servlet-mapping to suit
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet>dispatcher</servlet>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>