Q: Spring  doesn't work Hi mapping css doesn't work.
This is my config:
spring-servlet.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    
    <context:component-scan base-package="spring.controllers" />
    
    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
       <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView" />
       <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/content/" />
       <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
    </bean>
    
    <context:component-scan base-package="it.jsoftware.jacciseweb.controllers"></context:component-scan>
    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping" />
    <mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" />
    <mvc:resources mapping="/images/**" location="/images/" />
    <mvc:resources mapping="/js/**" location="/js/" />  
    

web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

  <display-name>JewishProjectT</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
    <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

and my heder file:
<!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">
        <c:choose>
            <c:when test="${sessionScope['org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver.LOCALE'] eq 'i18en'}">
                <c:set var="approach" value="left" scope="page"></c:set>
            </c:when>
            <c:when test="${sessionScope['org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver.LOCALE'] eq 'i18ru'}">
                <c:set var="approach" value="left" scope="page"></c:set>
            </c:when>
            <c:when test="${sessionScope['org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver.LOCALE'] eq 'i18he'}">
                <c:set var="approach" value="right" scope="page"></c:set>
            </c:when>
            <c:otherwise>
                <c:set var="approach" value="left"></c:set>
            </c:otherwise>
        </c:choose>
        <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="/css/common.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" href="/css/lavamenu.css">
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/<c:out value="${approach}"/>/lavalamp.js"></script>
        <title>${title}</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="main">

in chrome it shows:

/js/left/lavalamp.js 404 (Not Found) 0:19 GET
/css/common.css 404 (Not Found) 0:17 GET
/css/lavamenu.css 404 (Not Found)

How to correctly configure paths to css/images/js?
P.S. I excluded all links which starts with http:\\ , because rules of stackoverflow do not permit me post them as I am beginner.

A: Your <mvc:resources mapping="/css/**" location="/css/" /> seems fine to me, but are you sure your application is running in the root? Shouldn't your URLs start with some other context, like:
href="/myapp/css/common.css"

Or, to avoid hardcoded references:
href="<c:url value="/css/common.css" />"

If your application is running in the root, then you might need the correct namespace declarations? Something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd">

