Harry,
Thanks for your detailed information.
The approach doesn't work for my situation for the reason of url definiton
in the application. For instance, I have a url mapping for /home.htm but not
/myapp/home.htm. And changing the mapping xml file doesn't seem to be a good
way to deal with this issue although it is doable. The mapping mechanism
varies from a framework to another framework. I use the Spring for this
project.
Using the BASE tag means that you only need to change that one single value
- all the other URLs in your pages would stay fixed, because they are
relative to the BASE tag.
So, for example, you could have a common tag library that sets the BASE tag
value dynamically for all your pages - IOW, one tag library services all
your pages.
As for altering the code between development and deployment, the solutions
to that are trivial: if you are rebuilding between development and
deployment, then use a different build property to set a runtime property
that your tag library references.
If you're using the same build, then have a runtime variable that you can
set, which you tag library references.
I've used this method, and I recommend it. It's simple, and portable.
Harry Mantheakis
> Thanks for all your information.
>
> I was thinking of a application configuration solution so that I don't
need
> to alter the code between development and deployment. I have several
> applications in various development phases in my box. I try to figure to
> handle them together.
>
>
> Vernon
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> Alternatively, you can set a BASE reference within the HEAD element of
each
> page, and then use relative-paths in all your URLs:
>
>
> <head>
> ...
> <base href="http://www.webadorable.com/your-app-context-name-here/"/>
> ...
> </head>
>
> ...
>
> <img src="relpath/to/image.jpg"/>
>
>
> The BASE value can (should!) be set dynamically, of course - with a tag
> library, or whatever.
>
> Notice that the BASE reference has a trailing slash, whilst your relative
> paths must start without a leading slash.
>
> Harry Mantheakis
>
>
>> Is there any reason you can't just have the paths composed dynamically?:
>>
>> <img
src="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/webapp/relpath/to/image.jpg"
> />
>>
>> For the ROOT webapp, the expression will return an empty path, so it's
>> always correct.
>>
>> --David
>>
>> Vernon _ wrote:
>>>
>>> I have another new application deployed in a non-root directory. I
>>> need to have absolute paths for CSS and Javascript in order to import
>>> them properly with differenct level structure of JSP files. I can
>>> deploy it as the root application or add the application name in the
>>> absolute path. Neither solutions are very good. Any good practise to
>>> solve this issue?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vernon
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