How to expose ressources of custom app framework?

[dan.baumann]

Hi,

Since I'm working on several spring-based apps in parallel, I've built my own application framework on top of spring.

Now I'd like to include some ressources (like images, css, js) in my framework jar. Bundling them up is not a problem, but how do I expose them to Tomcat?

I guess I could use an ant target that copies the ressources from my jar to the war, or include in my framework a service that loads the ressources from the classpath, but both approaches seem "not right"..

Any ideas?

TIA,
dan

[Alef Arendsen]

You could provide a custom view that loads the resource from the classpath, but I'd rather take the former approach where Tomcat (or even better: Apache) serves static content.

This way, you benefit from an Apache server that is simply better as serving static content!

A third option would be to deploy the resources as a separate webapp or something...