Let me describe a bit about our application, just in case you (or anyone else) have some specific advice.
My client is a publisher, and the bulk of the site will be many thousands of published articles and associated content such as figure, tables, etc.
The HTML content, however, will be served by tomcat, since it has some dynamic components.
This is why it's not practical to bundle everything into a war file. Instead, I need tomcat to point to the file system where many users will be building the site.
On the other hand, the war file can easily contain the java infrastructure (struts, velocity, configuration information, etc.). I'd like to be able to keep the small war file, hot deploy, etc., but have the raw content (static and otherwise) live elsewhere.
Given that, would you solve it with multiple contexts? Or do you have another suggestion?
Thanks again,
Fred
At 10:08 AM 5/11/2004, you wrote:
Hi,
>Is there a way, within a single context, to separate out >the static content to some other file system location.
Of course, there are many ways, none of them advised. You want to keep your webapp as a whole, that's the whole point of a WAR file. You can symlink (at the filesystem level) or use normal HTTP linking to access your static content. But you can't symlink in a WAR, so...
>I believe that Yoav's suggestion is that I set up the empty >path ("") context for this purpose. However, this is where >I started, and Justin argued against this "cross-context" >approach.
And I agree with Justin, just to be clear. I wasn't advocating anything different from what he said, just showing you that it can technically be done. If crossContext forwards are the worst design choices on this list, we'll be in great shape.
Yoav Shapira
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