WebSphere Gotcha - Streaming in WAS 8

WebSphere Gotcha - Streaming in WAS 8

here's a little gotcha in WebSphere 8; if you're using Spring MVC and you decide to serve non-jsp content from behind the WEB-INF directory (e.g. a javascript file), the ViewResolver must return it as a jsp page, otherwise WAS will block it.

In tomcat or other servlet container it will work, but in WebSphere, I can't get it to.

My workaround

create a controller that will stream it back in the HttpServletResponse object