----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Trevisan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: url mapping
> "Pierre-Yves Saumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Or you might use your servlet to display the static file, using the
extra
> > path information.
> >
> Well, a web server like Apache isn't tuned just to accomplish this work?
> Serving static files isn't an unnecessary burden to a JVM ?
>
> > This technique can be use to map a directory to a servlet. You can then
> > access all document in this directory (and subdiretories) with their
> static
> > path, altough the document are served by the servlet. For example, when
a
> > user request :
> >
> > http://www.mydomain.com/jgr/mydoc.html
> >
> > he gets exactly what he asked for (document mydoc.html in directory
jgr),
> > but trough the servlet. The user never know he is accessing a servlet,
> > altough you can use it to parse the contain of the file and do whatever
> you
> > want.
> >
> How can such kind of servlet locate files indenpently from servlet
container
> and operating system ?
>
> Marco
>
since only files of the same webapplication would be sent by this servlet,
ServletContext.getResource() and ServletContext.getResourceAsStream() should
help (see Servlet Spec 2.3 at 3.4 for further information)...
-mw
>
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