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Spring static resource locations

In Spring Boot, the locations for serving static resources are derived from the ResourceProperties class within the WebMvcAutoConfiguration configuration^[600-developer-java-spring-thymeleaf-spring-thymeleaf-01.md].

By default, the framework searches for static resources in four specific classpath locations^[600-developer-java-spring-thymeleaf-spring-thymeleaf-01.md]:

  1. classpath:/META-INF/resources/
  2. classpath:/resources/
  3. classpath:/static/
  4. classpath:/public/

Implementation Details

The resource handling mechanism is initialized in the addResourceHandlers method of a configuration class^[600-developer-java-spring-thymeleaf-spring-thymeleaf-01.md]. This method registers resource handlers for the application, utilizing the array of locations defined in ResourceProperties to map URL patterns to physical resource files^[600-developer-java-spring-thymeleaf-spring-thymeleaf-01.md].

  • [[WebMvcAutoConfiguration]]
  • [[Webjars]]

Sources

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