Refrain from using file: protocol when accessing files from within the webapp 
or web-inf. When you
deploy the web application as a war and it is _not_ extracted but read directly 
by the application
server, this results in file not found errors... :-P

Sorry to come back to an old thread, but I was wondering which
application server is able to read directly from war, without
extracting it when deploying a web application? Are Tomcat or Jetty
able to do that? Where can I find out about this feature?

I have no real experience, but an application server is not obligated to extract the war instead of reading it directly. I have worked recently with Oracle Application Server, but I believe that extracts the war as well.

How to find out about the feature? Really don't know. It is an implementation detail you shouldn't be caring about.. ;-)

Regards,
Geert

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