Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app
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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