> > Actually, a server can support WARs without requiring the
> > user to do any unpacking.Gael Stevens wrote:
>
> Thanks. That sounds terrific, but how does the servlet container
> know which to do? I.e., the resource could be something which
> is expected to be severed as a static file (i.e., a .html) and
> therefore should be unpacked
The server can serve HTML files from a WAR. Just ask for
/context_path/index.html and it serves index.html from the correct WAR.
> or it could be something that the java programmer
> is expecting to access via the getResource() method
getResource() works either way, since the server knows where to look
for the data. Remember, with getResource() you don't specify a file
path, just a logical path. You get back a URL so the data might be
even on another machine.
> What differentiates them?
Basically, the server knows what to do so unless the servlet is trying
to read using java.io.* objects like File (discouraged as of API 2.1)
things should work hunky dory. :-)
-jh-
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