Document how to use WebJars without webjars-locator-core dependency

[sdeleuze]

Given current efficiency impact of webjars-locator-core (see this related comment), an its incompatibility with native images, it makes sense to recommend to use versioned URLs with this kind of configuration instead of WebJarsResourceResolver without including webjars-locator-core dependency in Spring reference documentation.

@Bean
public WebMvcConfigurer configurer() {
	return new WebMvcConfigurer() {
		@Override
		public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
			registry.addResourceHandler("/webjars/**").addResourceLocations("classpath:META-INF/resources/webjars/");
		}
	};
}

We can refine later recommending the regular webjars-locator-core + WebJarsResourceResolver approach with version-less URLs if/when webjars-locator-core implement resource resolution without scanning, which seems to be possible as experimented in #27619.

[sdeleuze]

Interestingly, WebJars versioned URLs work out of the box with Spring Boot which configures /META-INF/resources resource location by default (at least for now, see spring-projects/spring-boot#28295 related issue) so no need for WebMvcConfigurer bean for regular use case.

[vpavic]

Did you consider linking to WebJars' own documentation, more specifically to its Spring MVC section?

It is a bit dated (I'll try to open a PR to address that) but it should cover everything.

[sdeleuze]

Good point, feel free to provide a PR to refine.