But my application is also going to create them. My app needs to generate the PDF and save it off so that it won't need to be generated again (they are fairly large, db intensive reports).
Many different people/groups need to access these so I thought that the first person in would generate it and save it to a common location. Then, the next user in would see a link to the PDF instead of re-generating it. I didn't want to put it in a directory under the .war file because if/when we upgrade I didn't want to have the possibility of deleting old pdf's. -----Original Message----- From: Smith, Thad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:25 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Links to external files not in web application Are you expecting the application server that runs your Struts application to serve up these pdf files? If so, this is a no no! Application servers (and servlet containers) are geared to run with lower numbers of more processing intensive threads than a simple http server will. I would recommend putting your pdf files in a virtual directory that can be served directly by an http server (which can be on a different machine than your application server) even if you don't have your application server sitting behind an http server. Than just use a standard html anchor tag to link to the pdf documents (no need to use the struts tags to do this as they are not relevant to your struts application): <a href="http://myserver.mydomain.com/pdfs/mypdf.pdf";>Read Me!</a> Regards, Thad Smith P.S. This is the recommended way of serving up the images of your application as well. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Balmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 8:59 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Links to external files not in web application Please feel free to scold me if I'm missing something obvious but I can't think of a way to link to files (specifically pdf's) that have already been generated and are sitting in a folder external to any web application. I've tried to create a symbolic link to the directory inside my web application and then link to them as if they were inside the application but my application doesn't see them. Am I missing something or is this not as easy as it seems. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
