MultiViews analogon for web-apps?

[Adrian Mueller]

Hi,

For Apache httpd the "MultiViews" option can be set in the 
configuration-file. This allows resources to be called without providing 
the the file-extension in the URL, e.g. the URL 
"http://localhost/images/myImage"; returns the file "myImage.png" in the 
"images" folder (same as calling "http://localhost/images/myImage.png";).

It further serves clients depending on their behaviour:
When both the files "myImage.png" and "myImage.gif" are in the "images" 
folder, upon calling the URL "http://localhost/images/myImage"; httpd 
serves the png-image to the Firefox-browser (as it states its preference 
for png-images in the "Acept" header) while it serves the gif-image to 
Internet Explorer.

So my question is:

How do I enable this content-negotiation functionality for a java 
web-app when I use a stand-alone appserver such as Tomcat, i.e. without 
apache httpd in front?

Do I have to write a filter for this or is there an easier way?


Thanks,

    Adrian

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