Mapping a file to a URL pattern on Tomcat?

[Vinay Chilakamarri]

Hi,
>
> I want to send a response(which is basically a file on the disk) to a
> specific URL pattern. While I know that we could do this using directives in
> Apache HTTPD, I am not sure how to do this on Tomcat. I could see that we
> can map Servlets to a URL pattern. Is there a way that we can map a file
> directly like this, without having to write a servlet as such?
>
> Thanks.
>