This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Servlet specification, The spec does not talk about the layout of a web application on disk (in fact the application may not be on a disk as such, it may be server from a database. All the spec cares about is the format used to deploy the application. Each container is free to do with the application what it will, so long as it maintains the concept of 'application'
This means that any given container could provide what you want (a common repository of static files), although as John pointed out that would cause difficulties when you deploy the app (how would the container know which files were common, and what does common mean anyway). Tomcat doesn't do this (and is unlikely ever to do this). However it is an open source project, you are free to patch it as you see fit. Good Luck Kevin Jones Developmentor On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 12:36, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > while coding some web apps. I found something that I find wrong from a > design/technical point of view. > > web apps contexts are good and fine for a number of reasons, threading, > security, resource management, ... > > But there are many other issues that you must take into account while > designing dynamic web documents > > I think, (could list a long list of design and technical reasons, but we > know what I am talking about here) web apps contexts have no reason > whatsoever constraining purely static resources, like images, css etc. > > For a more detailed explanation of what I mean please go: > > http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=008704 > > What do you think of this? How do you formally make a RFE? > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 -- Kevin Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___________________________________________________________________________ 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
