jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

this is my js.  This url works fine outside of the jqgrid.  Shouldn't it still go thru Spring and to the Controller?

jQuery(document).ready(function()
     {                        
                    jQuery("#stateList").jqGrid(
                    {
                      url:"../stateList.htm",
                datatype:"json",                                                                                                                                                                  
                      colNames:["State Id","State Code","State Name"],
                      colModel :
                      [ 
                              {name:"stateId", index:"stateId", width:70}, 
                              {name:"stateCde", index:"stateCde", width:100}, 
                              {name:"stateNameTxt", index:"stateNameTxt", width:200}       
                      ],                 
                      pager: jQuery("#pager"),
                        sortname: "stateNameTxt",                  
                        sortable: true,
                      sortorder: "desc",
                      rowNum:10,
                      rowList:[10,20,30],                      
                      viewrecords: true,                  
                      caption: "State List",
                        multiselect:true,
                        loadtext:"Loading...",      
                        loadonce: true            
                    }); 
      });