Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 23 May 2011 15:30:53 -0400
Message-ID:
<ireckt$6bv$1@news.albasani.net>
On 05/23/2011 03:11 PM, markspace wrote:

Hi all,

I'm delving more heavily into JSP/Servlets and JSF at the moment. I've found
something that looks like a questionable design issue by the JEE folks at Sun
(now Oracle, of course) and I'd like to pick your brains about how you might
deal with it.

Basically, when developing a JEE web app, the application name gets inserted
into every URL and associated path. If my app is named TechDarwinia, for
example, then all URLS look like this:

http://localhost:8080/TechDarwinia/
http://localhost:8080/TechDarwinia/faces/readPost.xhtml
http://localhost:8080/TechDarwinia/rsrc/css/style.css

The problem is of course that the web app could be renamed anything by the
deployer/sysop, and I've got strings hard coded to that app name TechDarwinia.

So how do folks write their apps so that they can handle being deployed under
different names?


Relative URLS.

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