Here is an interesting problem I am running into. Say I have a servlet called "MyServlet". I am running xap out of a web application called "MyApplication".
>From code I want to send something to "MyServlet". What URL do I use? In an html browser "/" is typically relative to the server URL. So if I do "/MyServlet" it will not resolve to http://localhost/MyApplication/MyServlet but instead http://localhost/MyServlet, which is not correct in this case. I could make the request to /MyApplication/MyServlet, but that means my client-side code needs to know the name of the webapp. Alternately we could expose the name of the webapp context and my code would append "MyServlet" to that. >From a J2EE web-application perspective typically you are not hitting pages on >the server outside of the webapp, although it certainly is possible. Note that this is an even more annoying problem if you have XML code like: onCommand="/MyServlet?a=b" In this case if I want to hit MyApplication/MyServlet I really have to hardcode that in the XML. Possible solutions: 1: Leave it alone, they can hardcode in XML and append their URL to the context path in code. 2: Have at least optionally a flag or something like that that maps "/" to the root of the web application instead of the server root. Ideas? James Margaris
