Which Spring version are you using? I have tested this with Spring 3.1.1.RELEASE, using the following simple application:
Folder structure
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spring-web
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--- src
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--- main
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--- webapp
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--- page
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| --- home.jsp
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--- WEB-INF
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--- web.xml
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--- applicationContext.xml
home.jsp
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Welcome to Spring Web!</title>
</head>
<body>
Page URL: ${pageContext.request.requestURL}
</body>
</html>
web.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" metadata-complete="true" version="2.5" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<display-name>org.example.web</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>spring-mvc-dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/webContext.xml</param-value>
answered 2012-04-12T05:02:49.447