And if you're using tomcat you could use single sign on which is the correct way to implement this, http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/config/host.html#Single%20Sign%20On
It's a little bit of a pain in the butt, but it's less of a hack than some of the other solutions. On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:29:33AM -0700, Mark E. Zawadzki wrote: > If you are on Unix/Linux you could use symbolic links > --- Sanjeev Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I must warn you, this is far fetched: > > > > Place the jsp file in a central location on the hard disc of your server. > > Read up this file from inside the init() of some servlet of your 4 apps, > > which loads on startup, using normal FileReader. Once read, write this to a > > JSP file using normal FileWriter in the appropriate location. > > > > Some abstraction can be build into this process, like the location of the > > jsp file could be obtained from the web.xml in the from of a <init-param> > > > > This should work. Comments anyone??? > > > > Regards > > Sanjeev > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gupta, Gaurav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 6:16 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: How to share resources across different contexts > > > > > > > > HI ALL > > > > I have more than 4 applications(contexts). Most of the jsp pages include > > (static) a particular jsp file called Authentication.jsp. Currently this > > file is present in all the contexts, thus causing duplication. What i want > > is to have this at a common place and access it across all the contexts. Is > > there a way to do it. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > ===== > > Mark Zawadzki Performance Engineer/DBA/Programmer extraordinaire? [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Democracies die behind closed doors," - Judge Damon Keith > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > -- Dror Matalon Zapatec Inc 1700 MLK Way Berkeley, CA 94709 http://www.zapatec.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html