Serving static resources

Most teams today have separate teams delivering frontend and backend content. The frontend is developed with modern JavaScript frameworks, such as AngularJs, Backbone, and so on. Backend is built through web applications or REST services based on frameworks such as Spring MVC.

With this evolution in frontend frameworks, it is very important to find the right solutions to version and deliver frontend static content.

The following are some of the important features provided by the Spring MVC framework:

• They expose static content from folders in the web application root
• They enable caching
• They enable GZip compression of static content