Deploying different file types in Java Web Applications

Question

Hi,
I have recently return to web development in java after a long break and im having some trouble that i dont remember having before.
I have a web application bundles in a WAR file which is fully working in a fresh instillation of tomcat 5.5, servlets and jsp are all fine, but the jsp files are using a css which is also bundled in the WAR file.
The problem is that when i try to access to css from the html in the jsp files or directly by typing the url it is saying file not found, i have also tried this with a number of other file types, even .txt files .htm, .html files and the only files that i can access from the WAR once deployed are the jsps. I have tried adding the MIME types into the web.xml file for these files with no joy. Any idea how i can get these files to be accessible through the web server?

Answer 1

i have just worked out what it is, i had a servlet where the url-mapping set to the root of the web app i.e. '/'. when i changed it to something different it started to work.
thanks for the suggestion anyway