--- /dev/null
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
+
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+ <title>Simple Spring-MVC Examples</title>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <h1>Simple Spring-MVC Examples</h1>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/spring-page.html">Simple Spring-View</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>This page was delivered via SPRING!</p>
+ <h2>Note:</h2>
+ <p>
+ Since the <code>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</code>
+ ist configured to handle all <code>*.html</code>-requests, the path
+ <code>/index.html</code> points to a view.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Therefore, this page must be stored under
+ <code>/WEB-INF/views/index.jsp</code> in order to be served as
+ <code>/index.html</code>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Additionatly, a file <code>/index.jsp</code> in the root-directory of
+ the webappliction is needed, to forward unqualified requests
+ (like <code>http://HOSTNAME/</code>) to the welcome-page served by
+ the Spring-Dispatcher-Servlet.
+ </p>
+ </body>
+</html>
+++ /dev/null
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
-
-<html>
- <head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
- <title>Spring Examples</title>
- </head>
- <body>
- <h1>Spring Examples</h1>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/spring-page.html">Simple Spring-View</a></li>
- </ul>
- </body>
-</html>
--- /dev/null
+<%@page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" session="false" %>
+<jsp:forward page="/index.html"/>
+<%--
+
+Unfortionatly, the welcome-mechanism in web.xml does not work with a page
+served by a servlet...
+
+--%>