On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> A "document base" is in fact a directory in both of these cases, because you
> are declaring something equivalent to the "DocumentRoot" configuration
> parameter in Apache. However, you have several choices in how you actually
> set this value. Consider the following examples:
>
> * server.webapp.examples.docbase=examples
>
> "examples" must be a directory relative to the current
> working directory when you execute the startserver script.
>
> * server.webapp.examples.docbase=/my/path/to/examples
>
> This is an absolute path to a directory, on the same server,
> that contains the document tree for this context. There
> must be a WEB-INF subdirectory here containing the configs
> for the servlets in this context.
I tried this and had severe difficulties with is. The resulting path for
the work directories had 2 consecutive slashes and couldn't find the file
to compile.
> * server.webapp.examples.docbase=http://www.mycompany.com
>
> Use an existing web server as the "document root" for this
> servlet context, which lets you access files (HTML pages, JSP
> pages, whatever) on a different server in a distributed environment.
> No changes at all to your servlets are required, as long as you are
> using ServletContext.gerResource() instead of
> ServletContext.getRealPath() to access these resources.
>
> * server.webapp.examples.docbase=xyz://.....
>
> You can define your own URLStreamHandler for scheme "xyz:"
> and access resources from a database, from a JAR file, or whevever,
> in a manner totally independent of the underlying protocol.
> Again, the servlet source code doesn't change at all -- this
> is a configuration setting for the context in which the servlet runs.
Anyone know of a JAR scheme handler? That'd be really cool.
John K Peterson -- IT Services Development -- Brigham Young University
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (801) 378-5007
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