So lets revisit the issue: short of having to redeploy the entire application if any of its files are changed, what is the shortfall of packaging everything within the JAR? And now that I think about it, your resources don't necessarily need to be inside a JAR. I keep them normally expanded in WEB-INF/classes so there should be nothing preventing me from replacing files are runtime without a redeploy, right?

We should keep on investigating crawler-safe URL options but "worse case scenerio" if there is no cleaner solution I am +1 for this change anyway. Crawler-safe URLs are far more important to me than the inconvience of having to redeploy my application on changes.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but in production machines you have to redeploy on changes anyway because "watch resources for changes" should be disabled on those machines for performance reasons (or so the Tomcat documentation says).

Besides, when you think about it, it makes sense why JSP have context-path issues like this and we should probably have them too. Package-relative resources breed better application modularity. If you want to share resources you could always create your own package "shared" and reference resources relative to that. <shrug>

Gili

Eelco Hillenius wrote:
Yes, but naturally everything on your pages would have to be packaged.

Eelco

Gili wrote:


If we use packaged CSS (i.e. CSS contributions from Wicket 1.1) this problem will go away, right?

Gili

Eelco Hillenius wrote:

Just play around with the attachement, and you'll see soon enough what I mean.

Basically, if your url is http://server/ctx/webapp/pages/page1 where webapp is your application root (with WEB-INF and e.g. style.css), a reference on that page one will only work with either an absolute path or ../../style.css

This is a common problem when using plain JSP, and model 2 frameworks, which is why you need to use request.contextPath all over the place in those apps. It is nice with Wicket that you don't have to use that, but if you want to use /-es you also have to fix the path problem.

Eelco


Gili wrote:

Eelco,

I'm also +1 for replacing the built-in URL architecture with a crawler safe one if possible. This sort of stuff should just work out-of-the-box without any special configuration.

I don't understand what you mentioned about the slashes upsetting the CSS engine. Can you please elaborate?

Thanks,
Gili

Eelco Hillenius wrote:

This has been a question on the list several times: how do I rewrite my
URLs (so that they are crawler friendly).

I worked out an example (patched version of Linkomatic) of how this
could be done and attached it to RFE at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1209464&group_id=119783&atid=684978

HOWEVER... it is far for complete, and there are some obvious issues with it (I translate to use slashes like pages/foo/bar/ which upsets resources like .css references
as they think they reside in another directory then).

So, I won't support this (no time, sorry) but I thought to give some of
you at least an idea of how to start fixing this. For 1.1 ofcourse, it
would be great to have a complete implementation, which could maybe even
replace the current non-crawler-friendly urls we have now. That is, as
long as it doesn't make Wicket less easy to use.

Hope you'll find it of any use,

Eelco



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