Don Hill wrote:
I have a war that has folder like /images and /content, is there a way to config tomcat so that I can package these in jar, I know I can write a custom servlet todo this but I would like this to be handled by the servers servlet container. The reason this is my concern is that I think that the servlet container has a better model for handling request rather than a servlet that has to invoke a openStream, seems this would cause some contention and perf issues.
Just to clarify (not really offering a solution, sorry). The reason why you want to do that is to have some ability like "skins" in Mozilla and other products, right?
I mean, all static content can be a packaged into a WAR file, if packaging is what you need. If you'd like to have skins for your application, even dynamic skins, I'd sugest a servlet that would unpack/remove all static content from a set of JARs. A skin change would:
- unpack a new JAR to a temp dir - stop or pause the application - mv "static" dir to some other name - mv temp dir to "static" - un-pause application - cleanup
Access to static content would still be better off being handled through a servlet, how would you expire the old data otehrwise? Imagine half of your skin being new and the other half old...
Nix.
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