Spring MVC does not resolve image path stored outside webroot

I load images and videos and create appropriate video and audio tags to display on the view page, but somehow the image and video path is not getting resolved.

Here is my controller.

@RequestMapping(value = "/contentUpload", headers = "content-type=multipart/*", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody
String uploadImage(@RequestParam("fileData") MultipartFile multipartFile, HttpServletRequest request )
{
    String jsonResponse = null;
    boolean isImage = false;
    boolean isVideo = false;
    try
    {
        String path = request.getServletContext().getRealPath("/");
        File directory = null;
        if (multipartFile.getContentType().contains("image"))
        {
            directory = new File(path + "/uploads/images/");
            isImage = true;
        }
        else
        {
            directory = new File(path + "/uploads/videos/");
            isVideo = true;
        }

        byte[] bytes = null;
        File file = null;
        bytes = multipartFile.getBytes();

        if (!directory.exists()) directory.mkdirs();

        file = new File(directory.getAbsolutePath() + System.getProperty("file.separator") + multipartFile.getOriginalFilename());
        BufferedOutputStream stream = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
        stream.write(bytes);
        stream.close();

        if (isImage)
            jsonResponse = "<br /><img src=\"" + file.getAbsolutePath() + "\" />";
        else if (isVideo)
            jsonResponse = "<video>" + "<source src=\"" + file.getAbsolutePath() + "\" type=\"" + multipartFile.getContentType() + "\">" + "</video>";
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
    }       
    return jsonResponse;
}    

      

        
        
        
      

    

I tried resource settings in the manager.

<mvc:resources mapping="/uploads/**" location="/#{servletContext.contextPath}/uploads/" />

      

        
        
        
      

    

loaded image path.

/home/govi/demo/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/projectImg/uploads/images/batman.jpg

      

        
        
        
      

    

suggest me the changes you need.