Hello, my webapplication consists of a rather small set of classes, jsps and so on but has got a rather large content directory (some GB). My problem is now if I want to update only the application itself but not the content by uploading a new war-file I nevertheless have to upload the content again. I cannot use a combination of Apache and Tomcat, letting Apache serve the content (and thus using another docbase) as this content has to be protected by a security-mechanism of the application.
Is there any way to store the content data out of the webapplication directory but still being able to serve those files to the client? Of course I could write a servlet to do this job, but what about the performance if every request to a file goes through a servlet that looks for the file in another directory, parses it and then sends the stream back to the client? Anyone solved this problem that way and got any positive or negative experience? Or is it better to leave the content where it is and just update the application incrementally? If yes has anyone got a good hint how to manage this update process without the need of doing this manually (i.e. deleting old files, jsps, classes and uploading new ones)? Bjoern Eickvonder ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit Version: AVK 16.474 from 14.09.2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
