On Fri, 11 May 2001, Gokul Singh wrote:
| > Can I access (config) files which resides in the WEB-INF directory?
| >
| > I have some config files for a "server" I've made in Servlets, and I
| > basically wonder what the spec says about files in WEB-INF (not lib or
| > classes). I now have them residing in "classes", but I find this a bit
| > ugly. It would be cooler if I could put them along with the web.xml.
|
| The latest release of the servlet specification 2.3 pfd2 is a very readable
| document.
| I would suggest that anyone doing development on servlet read it once.
Jess, I will do. Have read some of it.
|
| Section SRV.9.5 of the spec says the following
| <from specs>
| However, the contents of the WEB-INF directory
| are visible to servlet code using the getResource() and
| getResourceAsStream()
| method calls on the ServletContext. Any application specific configuration
| information
| that the developer needs access to from servlet code yet does not wish to
| be exposed to the web client may be placed under this directory.
| </from specs>
|
| I hope that solves your doubt.
It definately does! Thanks! Exactly as I hoped for! ;)
--
Mvh,
Endre
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