I did a little investigation and it looks like the <icon> part of web.xml has nothing to do with displaying a custom icon in the web browser's address bar, as I suspected. I think <icon> is intended to allow you to specify a custom icon for your web app that will appear in GUI tools related to the app server. For instance, many app servers have web-based administration consoles or some other kind of GUI administration tool. However, I tried this with WebLogic 6.1 and it doesn't seem to use my icons. Perhaps later versions do, but 6.1 seems to ignore it, even though the icon image paths I specified do show up in the deployment descriptor (web.xml editor) section of the admin console. But you don't actually see the images with this app server.
I did a google search as Ramesh suggested and found the solution that Louise recommended. Here's a page with more details: http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/110599I.html -Max ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bjørn T Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: Re: Icon? > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 03:27, Max Cooper wrote: > > Two things come to mind: > > > > 1. Do you want an icon that will show up in a browser when a user accesses > > your application/site? If so, you need to do something else -- the <icon> > > part of the servlet spec seems to indicate that it is for GUI tools (like > > your app server's management console) rather than for browser access to the > > webapp itself. I am not totally sure about this as I have not tried it > > myself, but that is my impression from reading the servlet spec. > > Well, I want to change the icon that appear in front of the url in the > browser, I see other use it... > > > > 2. Is the <icon> element in the right place in the web.xml file? An editor > > that does XML validation (like IntelliJ IDEA and other IDEs and XML editors) > > is very helpful for pointing out such errors. > > I tried moving it around and the only thing that happens is that I am > getting an error msg if I am putting it under the servlet tag and under > the web tag nothing happens. > I also tried setting this in the header: > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="<html:rewrite forward="mainIcon"/>" > type="image/x-icon" /> > > but nothing... > > Anyone? > > > > > -Max > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bjørn T Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 8:44 AM > > Subject: Icon? > > > > > > > I am trying to customize the icon my webapp is using by adding > > > > > > <icon> > > > <small-icon> > > > path-to-icon > > > </small-icon> > > > </icon> > > > > > > in my web.xml file, but nothing happens. What am I overlooking? > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > BTJ > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- > Bjørn T Johansen (BSc,MNIF) > Executive Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Havleik Consulting > Phone : +47 67 54 15 17 Conradisvei 4 > Fax : +47 67 54 13 91 N-1338 Sandvika > Cellular : +47 926 93 298 http://www.havleik.no > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- > "The stickers on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Windows > 98, Windows NT 4.0, > Windows 2000 or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform." > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
