Web resources folder and axis2.war

[Saminda Abeyruwan]

Hi Devs,

If an .aar contains a "www" folder with web resources (html, js, css, etc), in embeddable version (war), resource urls will not work due to the following reason.

In the web.xml  provided, there exists the following entry,

<welcome-file-list>
      <welcome-file>/axis2-web/index.jsp</welcome-file>
 </welcome-file-list>

This will cause the following problem.

Say, user deployed a foo.aar which has a "www" folder with web resources. Then, deployment mechanism will copy the web resources under "axis2/foo" folder.

Thus one will have the following,

{tomcat.home}
      -  webapps
                    - axis2
                       -  foo
                            - index.html
                             - ...
                        - WEB-INF
                              - ...
                        - ...
If user  uses the url  http://localhost:8080/axis2/foo this will cause unknown resources due to "/axis2-web/index.jsp" context path.

Thus,  in order to overcome this, user has to do  the following

<welcome-file-list>
      <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
      <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
      <welcome-file>/axis2-web/index.jsp</welcome-file>
 </welcome-file-list>

Shall we add this to the default web.xml that provide with axis2. Thus, this would cover the 90% web resources usage.

Thank you

Saminda