This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Servlet specification, The
spec does not talk about the layout of a web application on disk (in
fact the application may not be on a disk as such, it may be server from
a database. All the spec cares about is the format used to deploy the
application. Eac
The moment you introduce something like what you are asking for,
I, as an administrator, can no longer lift one "war" from an over worked (physical)
server and
deploy it on a less busy (physical) server. I think that your best solution is to
create your own
configurable "file serving servlet" an
