Why not just put it next to WEB-INF/ ? Or if you need to manipulate it with Wicket (e.g. generate it on the fly) then use a Wicket Resource which is mounted at /favicon.ico.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Ian Marshall <ianmarshall...@gmail.com>wrote: > I would appreciate some advice on best practice for favicons in Wicket.... > > I subclass most of my web pages from a subclass of WebPage. I implement my > favicon in the way set out at the foot of this posting. I have two types of > problem. > > 1. When testing the URL "http://localhost:8080/favicon.ico"; on my local > machine (and a similar, production URL in deployment) I get the error like: > > HTTP ERROR 404 Problem accessing /favicon.ico. Reason: NOT_FOUND > > > 2. When accessing one of my pages descended from MyBasePage (itself > subclassed from WebPage and incorporating " ... " in its HTML mark-up), I > sometimes get the Google App Engine for Java warning: > > org.apache.wicket.markup.html.PackageResource getResourceStream: > Unable to find package resource > [path = ..., style = null, locale = en_GB] > > > I suspect that I am doing something wrong. Can anyone point me in the right > direction? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > > HTML mark-up > ------------ > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> > > > ... > > ... > > > > > Java code > --------- > public class MyBasePage extends WebPage > { > ... > > public MyBasePage(IModel model) > { > super(model); > > // Both the do-nothing "ResourcesLocator.java" file and my "favicon.ico" > // file are in the same resources package. > > ResourceReference rrefFavicon = new ResourceReference( > ResourcesLocator.class, "favicon.ico"); > > ResourceLink rlnkFavicon = > new ResourceLink("lnkFavicon", rrefFavicon); > > add(rlnkFavicon); > } > > ... > } > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/Favicon-best-practice-tp3386789p3386789.html > Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com <http://jweekend.com/>
