On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 01:54:57PM +0530, Jitendra Agrawal wrote: : I have a directory /home/jiten/images/. : There are several programs updating this images folder and accessing : it. If I move it or make it symbolic link, they will break.
Specifically, what are you trying to do? Are you trying to serve those images via Tomcat, i.e. through <IMG> tags in HTML? This question came up recently. To recap: Java webapps they are meant to be self-contained applications. Serving files outside of the context area will take more than a symlink. =) Specifically, the servlet spec doesn't deal with symlinks because they're OS-specific and there's no way to follow them from inside a WAR file. If the images are static and you're in a development cycle, just get used to all apps having copies of the images. You'll spare yourself the headache of trying to get around this "limitation" of the spec. Addendum: If the images are being dynamically updated, say, by an external program: you could a servlet that loads the images from outside the context area. That would involve: 1/ having all relevant <IMG> tags refer to this servlet 2/ setting up the servlet to know where the images are on-disk 3/ having the servlet set the content-type and other related headers, then open the file and stream it out to the client. -QM -- software -- http://www.brandxdev.net tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
