tomcat - Spring MVC 3 Web.xml welcome file (index.jsp) doesn't get displayed 404 -

hope can because far can see, set correctly (but please prove me wrong).

i have spring 3 mvc project configured follows:

web.xml

<servlet>     <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>     <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.dispatcherservlet</servlet-class>     <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet>  <servlet-mapping>     <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>     <url-pattern>/frontpage</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>  <welcome-file-list>     <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list>  <context-param>     <param-name>contextconfiglocation</param-name>     <param-value>/web-inf/myservlet-service.xml</param-value> </context-param>  <listener>     <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.contextloaderlistener</listener-class> </listener> 

and myservlet-servlet.xml

<mvc:annotation-driven /> <context:component-scan base-package="my.path.to.controllers" />  <bean     class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.defaultannotationhandlermapping" /> <bean     class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.annotationmethodhandleradapter" />  <bean     class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.internalresourceviewresolver">     <property name="prefix" value="/web-inf/views/" />     <property name="suffix" value=".jsp" /> </bean> 

i have index.jsp within web-inf (not web-inf/views) nothing more "hello" (i trying forward /frontpage).

now, if type in url controllers (localhost:8080/myservlet/frontpage), controller works , view displayed, when first start 404 instead of index.jsp page. i've tried adding leading slash index.jsp makes no difference.

i must have made schoolboy error somewhere, can't life of me see where. can point out me?

spring mvc 3.2 tomcat 6 running in sts 2.9.1 servlet 2.5

many thanks.

the web-inf folder not accessible publicly. have put index.jsp somewhere reachable, instance in web application root folder.

/mywebapp     /web-inf/     /index.jsp