Spring MVC 4 Java Config with Static HTML Views
<p>I am trying to build a single page HTML/Angular app backed by Spring MVC 4 without .jsp files.</p>

<p>When the user arrives to the root URL (<a href="http://myapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://myapp.com/</a> for example), I want to send the single page HTML document (index.html). </p>

<p>However, I am new to Spring MVC's Java config and cannot work out the proper combination of <code>ServletMapping</code>, <code>ViewResolver</code>, and <code>ResourceHandler</code>.</p>

<p>I know that there may be some additional configuration for the "default" or "index" page, but I may be mistaken.</p>

<p>So how do I make a Java configured Spring MVC 4 application send an html file?</p>

<p>File structure</p>

<pre><code>/src
  '-/main
     |-/web-inf
     '-/webapp
         |-index.html (want to send this)
         '-/app
            |-/partials
            '-app.js 
</code></pre>

<p>WebAppConfig.java</p>

<pre><code>@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
  registry.addResourceHandler("/").addResourceLocations("/index.html");
}
</code></pre>

<p>IndexController.java</p>

<pre><code>@RequestMapping("/")
public void index() {

  System.out.println("pls"); // executes
  // Have tried returning "index" and "index.html"
}
</code></pre>

<p>WebInitializer.java</p>

<pre><code>@Override
protected String[] getServletMappings() {
  // have tried with "/" as well
  return new String[] { "/*" };
}
</code></pre>