Jsps under WEB-INF

Hello,
i've moved my jsps from outside WEB-INF to WEB-INF directory
/web-inf/jsp/private/home.jspBut now i can't receive the home.jsp page. what do i have to do to see the home.jsp in the browser? Do i have to change my faces-config.xml ?
thanks

Files in WEB-INF and META-INF are not public accessible. You may create kind of a servlet which serves those files using an absolute path. But that's just a nasty workaround for kind of a workaround. What are you trying to achieve? Why have you moved the files to the WEB-INF?

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Appc does not compile JSPs under WEB-INF

Hi,
          We are using WLS 8.1 and I noticed that appc does not compile jsps that are
          under WEB-INF. Is this expected? If the jsps are outside of WEB-INF then
          appc works fine...
          Thanks!
          John


Although the client is not allowed to directly access jsps under WEB-INF, it
          is perfectly acceptable (and often recommended) to use a front controller to
          forward to jsps. Often these jsps are "hidden" in the WEB-INF directory so
          that they can't be accessed directly by the client. This pattern works fine
          under 8.1 except that appc won't precompile the jsps under WEB-INF (the
          container does compile the jsps when they are called). I believe this is a
          bug... If jsps are allowed in WEB-INF then appc should compile them...
          John
          "Stjepan Brbot" <stjepan.brbot@@zg.hinet.hr> wrote in message
          news:[email protected]...
          > Yes, this is expected! Web container, or better to say it's web component,
          > does not serve content of WEB-INF directory directly mening you cannot
          > access jsp inside WEB-INF like
          http://host:port/WebApp/WEB-INF/something.jsp
          > hence there's no need for compiling JSP's in it! The content of WEB-INF
          > directory can be accessed only via internal links so it is mostly used for
          > referencing taglibs. JSPs, HTMLs, images and all other file type that has
          to
          > be accessible directly by client web-server (not container internally)
          > should be in application directory or one of it's subdirectories.
          >
          > "John Hampton" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > news:[email protected]...
          > > Hi,
          > >
          > > We are using WLS 8.1 and I noticed that appc does not compile jsps that
          > are
          > > under WEB-INF. Is this expected? If the jsps are outside of WEB-INF
          then
          > > appc works fine...
          > >
          > > Thanks!
          > > John
          > >
          > >
          >

Warning - When Compiling .jsp pages under WEB-INF

Created a directory jsp under WEB-INF and when i compile the jsp pages i get the following warning message
Warning: package name web2d_inf._jsp does not match source file name C:\ProviderEnrollment\ProvEnrollView\classes\.jsps\_WEB_2d_INF\_jsp\_searchprovider.java
Need help
Thanks

We have encountered this warning too.
I'm not an Oracle employee, but it looks like there's a bug in JDev that preserves the case for the output directories but not for the package name that is supposed to correspond to the output directories.
In any case, we haven't seen any runtime problems that seem to be related to this warning, so you may be safe to disregard it. It does foul up the build log though.
Any JDev team members watching this topic are welcome to chime in with a confirmation and details of this apparent bug, as well as any workaround that might exist to avoid having the warning appear. Thanks!

Jsp-file="/WEB-INF/index.jsp" cannot load

          Hi,
          I am defining a servlet in the web.xml file using the following syntax.
          <servlet>
          <servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
          <jsp-file>/WEB-INF/index.jsp</jsp-file>
          </servlet>
          Then when I tried to access this servlet, I get a 404 not found error. The weblogic.log
          file complains with the following message:
          java.io.FileNotFoundException: no resource '/WEB-INF/index.jsp' in servlet context
          root '/home/dev/web/apps/MyApp'
          at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.compilePage(JspStub.java:293)
          at weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.prepareServlet(JspStub.java:227)
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:200)
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:115)
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletContextImpl.java:922)
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletContextImpl.java:886)
          at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextManager.invokeServlet(ServletContextManager.java:269)
          at weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.invokeServlet(MuxableSocketHTTP.java:380)
          at weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.execute(MuxableSocketHTTP.java:268)
          at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:129)
          My jsp file in located in /home/dev/web/apps/MyApp/WEB-INF/index.jsp, I know weblogic
          doesn't support jsp under WEB-INF, however, according to Sun's Servlet specification,
          anything under web-inf should be accessible to getResource and getResourceAsStream
          method, and it looks like that's what weblogic implementation is using (from the
          error message). So I am not sure whether this is weblogic issue or I am doing
          something wrong. By the way, the above config in web.xml is supported in Tomcat.


          What version of WebLogic will incorporate Servlet spec 2.4 and allow jsp under
          web-inf?
          Chris
          "Narayan Anand" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >Regarding S-12864 - It will not work as stated in the solution in any
          >of
          >the available releases of WLS.
          >Please ignore that. I already informed the concerned person to correct
          >the
          >solution.
          >
          >The story behind this is:
          >Our engineering team is already aware of the fact that the request
          >dispatcher calls (include/forward) for a jsp under the web-inf directory
          >works in other app server - Tomcat.
          >Our engineering team had a discussion with the servlet/jsp spec experts
          >group for clarifying the spec and the tomcat implementation.
          >So the servlet expert group has decided to explicitly state in the spec
          >that
          >RD.forward() and RD.include() should be allowed access to resources in
          >/WEB-INF and it will be included in servlet spec 2.4. For now, WLS works
          >as
          >per the current specification.
          >
          >So far the story is - WLS will implement this in our next major release
          >which will be compliance with servlet spec 2.4.
          >In all the currently available WLS releases, accessed to a jsp under
          >the
          >WEB-INF directory is prohibited.
          >
          >--
          >Best Regards,
          >Narayan Anand
          >Developer Relations Engineer
          >BEA Systems, Inc.
          >
          >
          >
          >
          >
          >
          >"Ming Fan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          >news:[email protected]...
          >>
          >> Thanks for the explanation. So this means weblogic treats such mapped
          >servlet request
          >> as a direct request to the jsp under WEB-INF, instead of forwarding
          >it to
          >some
          >> JspCompiler servlet and let that compiler servlet use some resource
          >loader
          >to
          >> load the jsp and then compile. I believe that latter implementation
          >approach also
          >> conforms the Servlet spec (it's a different way of treating the request,
          >I
          >guess).
          >>
          >> Now here's another question. According to Web logic Customer Support
          >Solution
          >> ID S-12864 (WLS 6.x - Cannot access JSP under the WEB-INF directory),
          >the
          >servlet
          >> should be able to get a request dispatcher, and then forward the request
          >to the
          >> jsp under WEB-INF. I am still using WLS 5.1, so does the above solution
          >apply
          >> to 5.1 also? It doesn't seem to work with 5.1. So is this a 5.1 problem
          >and I
          >> should upgrade to 6.1?
          >>
          >> Thanks.
          >>
          >> "Narayan Anand" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >> >Hi Ming,
          >> >
          >> >It is legal to put files under WEB-INF directory. But as mentioned
          >in
          >> >the
          >> >spec, it will be available only to servlet code and not directly to
          >client
          >> >request.
          >> >Read the last statement of the same paragraph in section9.5.
          >> >"Since requests are matched to resource mappings case-sensitively,
          >client
          >> >requests for '/WEB-INF/foo', '/WEb-iNf/foo', for example, should not
          >> >result
          >> >in contents of the web application located under /WEB-INF being returned,
          >> >nor any form of directory listing thereof.".
          >> >
          >> >So in your case, when you access the servlet which gets mapped to
          >> >/WEB-INF/your-jspfile, under no condition it should result in display
          >> >of jsp
          >> >contents.
          >> >It is working as per the specification.
          >> >
          >> >I hope this helps.
          >> >
          >> >Regards,
          >> >Narayan Anand
          >> >Developer Relations Engineer
          >> >BEA WebLogic Support
          >> >
          >> >
          >> >
          >> >"Ming Fan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          >> >news:[email protected]...
          >> >>
          >> >> Actaully there are other ways to solve my problem. But what I am
          >> >interested to
          >> >> know is under the Servlet specification 2.3, is it legal to put
          >jsp
          >> >under
          >> >WEB-INF,
          >> >> define it in <jsp-file> xml tag, and should the JSP compiler be
          >able
          >> >to
          >> >see this
          >> >> as a resource. Apparently, Tomcat allows this behavior, so does
          >this
          >> >mean
          >> >Tomcat
          >> >> conforms better to the Servlet spec, or Tomcat is wrong but Weblogic
          >> >conforms
          >> >> better? Can anyone let me know what's the correct interpretation
          >of
          >> >section 9.5
          >> >> in servlet spec 2.3?
          >> >>
          >> >>
          >> >> "Jerrie Pineda" <[email protected]> wrote:
          >> >> >Try moving it to a different dir. You normally don't place jsp
          >file
          >> >> >in the
          >> >> >WEB-INF dir.
          >> >> >
          >> >> >
          >> >> >"Ming Fan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
          >> >> >news:[email protected]...
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> Hi,
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> I am defining a servlet in the web.xml file using the following
          >> >syntax.
          >> >> >> <servlet>
          >> >> >> <servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
          >> >> >> <jsp-file>/WEB-INF/index.jsp</jsp-file>
          >> >> >> </servlet>
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> Then when I tried to access this servlet, I get a 404 not found
          >> >error.
          >> >> >The
          >> >> >weblogic.log
          >> >> >> file complains with the following message:
          >> >> >> java.io.FileNotFoundException: no resource '/WEB-INF/index.jsp'
          >> >in
          >> >> >servlet
          >> >> >context
          >> >> >> root '/home/dev/web/apps/MyApp'
          >> >> >> at
          >weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.compilePage(JspStub.java:293)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >weblogic.servlet.jsp.JspStub.prepareServlet(JspStub.java:227)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >>
          >>
          >>>weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:
          >2
          >> >0
          >> >> >0)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >>
          >>
          >>>weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.ja
          >v
          >> >a
          >> >> >:115)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >>
          >>
          >>>weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletContextI
          >m
          >> >p
          >> >> >l.java:922)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >>
          >>
          >>>weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextImpl.invokeServlet(ServletContextI
          >m
          >> >p
          >> >> >l.java:886)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >>
          >>
          >>>weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletContextManager.invokeServlet(ServletConte
          >x
          >> >t
          >> >> >Manager.java:269)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >>
          >>
          >>>weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.invokeServlet(MuxableSocketHTTP.java:380
          >)
          >> >> >> at
          >> >> >weblogic.socket.MuxableSocketHTTP.execute(MuxableSocketHTTP.java:268)
          >> >> >> at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:129)
          >> >> >>
          >> >> >> My jsp file in located in
          >/home/dev/web/apps/MyApp/WEB-INF/index.jsp,
          >> >> >I
          >> >> >know weblogic
          >> >> >> doesn't support jsp under WEB-INF, however, according to Sun's
          >Servlet
          >> >> >specification,
          >> >> >> anything under web-inf should be accessible to getResource and
          >> >> >getResourceAsStream
          >> >> >> method, and it looks like that's what weblogic implementation
          >is
          >> >using
          >> >> >(from the
          >> >> >> error message). So I am not sure whether this is weblogic issue
          >> >or
          >> >> >I am
          >> >> >doing
          >> >> >> something wrong. By the way, the above config in web.xml is
          >supported
          >> >> >in
          >> >> >Tomcat.
          >> >> >
          >> >> >
          >> >>
          >> >
          >> >
          >>
          >
          >

JSPs in WEB-INF

Hi,
i have two (basicly?) questions:
1)
i try to put my JSP under WEB-INF, like i am able to do in struts
so in struts i have a URL: http://myhost/strutsApp/loadFile.do
that triggers an action-class, doing something an returns ActionForward,
which is my JSP under WEB-INF
can i deal so in JSF?
2)
is it possible to add "actions" ?
i need a "logical-access" before presenting my jsf-sites,
a URL like this http://myhost/jsfApp/loadCarById?id=9876543
so a class must load some data from database and convert it to a backbean in my jsfs
any ideas?
thanks for any comment!!!

Ahh! Now I copy.
Inside my backing bean I call java.sql based code. I got away from using jsp sql tags or the access to databases via the JNDI of tomcat. The java.sql based code I use comes from over the years and can connect to multiple databases. It is not based on javax.sql which I'm considering. I don't know if there is such an endeavor out there. Do you know of any? The javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql package does not look too useful. I have a sourceforge project where I could put this code if I thought it was useful.
I do use PreparedStatement's and a parameter coming back from a component in a form could readily be set into a PreparedStatement and the result set put back into the HtmlDataTable for the table in a jsf form.
Here is what I call during initialization and I'm trying to make the per session; just like the title is set into a PreparedStatement so can a parameter returned from a jsf form component.
com.neuralworks.jdbc.Hub hub;
//try
hub=(com.neuralworks.jdbc.Hub)new com.neuralworks.jdbc.Hub();//java.beans.Beans.instantiate(null,"com.neuralworks.jdbc.Hub");
hub.setPropertyFileName("com.hypernex.jsf.bundles.databases");
hub.connectJDBCAdapter();
//hub.setUrl(getString("URL2"));
//hub.setUser(getString("User"));
//hub.setPassword(getString("Password"));
//hub.connectJDBCAdapter();
com.hypernex.jordbc.CrystallographyDataModel.getInstance().setHub(hub);
com.hypernex.jordbc.CrystallographyDataModel.getInstance().initialize();
com.hypernex.jordbc.CrystallographyDataModel crystallographyDataModel=com.hypernex.jordbc.CrystallographyDataModel.getInstance();
title=com.hypernex.jordbc.CrystallographyDataModel.getInstance().getMapName();
//double[] xMap=crystallographyDataModel.getXMap();
//double[] yMap=crystallographyDataModel.getYMap();
//String[] patternName=new String[xMap.length];
//String[] mapID=crystallographyDataModel.getMapID();
dataTable=new HtmlDataTable();
//dataTable.setRows(xMap.length);
hub.prepareStatement("select X, Y, MAP_ID from MAP_LOCATIONS, MAP where MAP_LOCATIONS.MAP_PK = MAP.MAP_PK and MAP.NAME=? ORDER BY MAP_LOCATIONS_PK");
hub.setObjectAt(1,title);
java.sql.ResultSet resultSet=hub.executeQuery();
dataTable.setValue(new ResultSetDataModel(resultSet));
//dataTable.setRows(xMap.length);
System.out.println("title="+title+" "+dataTable.getRowData());
hub.prepareStatement("select NAME from MAP where REMOVE=0");
java.util.Vector v=hub.vectorizeColumnQuery(1);
for(int i=0; i < v.size(); i++)
String recipe=(String)v.elementAt(i);
recipes.add(new SelectItem(recipe, recipe, recipe));

Precompile JSP in WEB-INF

Hi,
We're using split-directory. Our jsps live inside of WEB-INF to protect them from
direct accessing. Only the Servlet controller can access jsps. A few questions
here:
1. How can I precompile jsps at the compilation time? Appc doesn't work, since
it assumes jsps always live outside of the WEB-INF.
2. Where is the output directory that we should set if we can precompile. Our
jsps are located in WEB-INF/jsps.
3. Right now we leave the server compile them on fly. But where the compiled classes
are stored on the server. We deploy the EAR to the server.
Thanks!

Hi,
1) Thanks for pointing this out. Indeed appc & jspc (8.1) don't compile jsps
under WEB-INF and the CR associated with this bug is CR133172. Please
contact [email protected] to obtain a patch for this issue.
2) If appc were used on a split directory ear, the .class files for the
jsps are copied into the destination directory of the split dir (more
specifically into the webapp module's WEB-INF/classes being compiled)
3) When compiled at runtime, the default outputDirectory is under the server
temp dirs : .wlnotdelete/extract/<server-name>_<app/ear-name>_<module-name>/
--Nagesh
"Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:40771782$[email protected]..
>
Hi,
We're using split-directory. Our jsps live inside of WEB-INF to protectthem from
direct accessing. Only the Servlet controller can access jsps. A fewquestions
here:
1. How can I precompile jsps at the compilation time? Appc doesn't work,since
it assumes jsps always live outside of the WEB-INF.
2. Where is the output directory that we should set if we can precompile.Our
jsps are located in WEB-INF/jsps.
3. Right now we leave the server compile them on fly. But where thecompiled classes
are stored on the server. We deploy the EAR to the server.
Thanks!

Does JSP best practice of putting under WEB-INF apply to JSF pages?

I'm new to JSF and wondering if the "best practice" advice that used to be given of storing your jsp pages under WEB-INF (when using Model2) to keep them from being served up without going through your controller still applies with JSF.
Since the component lifecycle is so different, I'm wondering if it would still apply? If anyone can explain why it might or might not apply I'd appreciate it!
Thanks!

The rule is:
keep all the pages you don�t user to "browse", under the WEB-INF directory.
MeTitus

Access JSP pages under WEB-INF

Hello, I have a web application and i use Java,JSP, servlets etc.
In my webpage i have three different categories of users
*1)* Registered users
*2)* Not Registered users
*3)* Administrator
I would like the welcome page index.jsp and register page be accessed by everyone.
But as far as the other pages are concerned , i would like to be accessed only by the registered users.
What shall i do??
I placed the index.jsp and register.jsp under the public folder and the other pages under WEB-INF folder in order to be accesses only from the registered users.
But it's not working!
What exactly shall i do in order to make that work??
Thanks, in advance!

g_p_java wrote:
Thanks for the link! As i understood i don't have to place my web pages under WEB-INF (only the web.xml which is already there).
*1)* So i have to follow the steps that are being mentioned there for all the users right??
Registered , Not Registered and admin.
Yes, security constraining through web.xml is a url pattern based protection for your resources. You could create multiple urls - /secured/* and map them to your resources accessible to registered users only or you may have /admin/* and define that only 'admin' roles have access to these resources. Some portions of such setup would be server specific (eg: how you create users and map them to roles)
*2)* I would like to make a question: Who is the "FrontController" in the link you posted me? [http://onjava.com/onjava/2001/08/06/webform.html]
It's the Container. Because such features are mandated by the spec, the container provides an implementation and options to customize the implementation (for example in weblogic, you can specify that your users are bound to an LDAP or configured in a Users table in the db)
Nevertheless, you would have your own Controllers for your application management (Struts or Spring or whatever suits your need). On the same note, you should have your own Filters to implement whatever common logic you have across your application.
Madathil_Prasad wrote:
2. Write a filter that checks for the presence of a session (and entitlements possibly) before allowing access to a resource.
*3)* when you write "_entitlements_" what exactly do you mean??
Thanks!
This is the other road I was talking about. You could throw all configuration and j2ee based security configuration out of the window (they do have their limitations) and implement custom security logic in a Filter. For example,
String urlPattern = request.getRequestURI();
if(urlPattern.indexOf("/secured") != null{
         if(request.getSession(false) == null){
               //redirect to login page.
         }else{
              //valid session
              //now check specific entitlement to see whether user has access
}Here entitlement refers to permissions at a granular level (authorization if you wish to call it). For example, you have 2 kinds of admin users - some who can generate reports of web activity and another who can change application settings.
ram.

Access dead page for access page under WEB-INF

hi, all , I have some page is under WEB-INF , if the user direct access this kind of jsp pages, will have some 4004 statue, could I have a customer error page to instead this 404 page . thankk you!

Thank you,
I realize my problem and your answer make my more understand my problem, but the problem still there.String myLink = req.getParameter("myLink");
            String target = null;
            HttpSession userSession = (HttpSession) req.getSession(true);
            HttpSession session = req.getSession();
            String word=(String)session.getAttribute("said");
           // out.println(word);
            if(word.equals("")||word==null)
             RequestDispatcher rd =
             getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/error/notFound.jsp"); //under?Hello
              rd.forward(req, response);
            else{
            target = "/WEB-INF/jsp/" + myLink;
            // at dSec.jsp id is link, so you can't use userSession.setAttribute("link", target) in here!
           // userSession.setAttribute("place", target);
            RequestDispatcher rd =
             getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher(target);
            rd.forward(req, response);} when I direct call my http://localhost/Hello/servlet/JumpLink?myLink=test1.jsp I get and empty page , not be forward to notFound page, what I did wrong?

Pros and Cons of putting jspx pages under WEB-INF

Greetings All,
I have been using JHeadstart release 10.1.3 Prod for a while now and was generating pages in various subdirectories under WEB-INF/pages/ and things are working fine.
However, recently I came across a post in jDeveloper forum Re: Access JSF Pages within WEB-INF directory where Frank Nimphius has mentioned that there is no sense in putting JSP files that are used with JSF into WEB-INF.
I know that in struts world it makes sense to put the jsp files under WEB-INF to prevent the users from directly accessing them and force them to access them only via struts actions/navigation rules; but in JSF world we anyway expose the jspx names to the user and in-fact if we keep the pages under WEB-INF the url to access the pages also contains 'faces/WEB-INF/...'
Thus, I would like to get opinion from various experienced professionals participating in this forum and more so from JHeadStart team members on Pros and Cons of putting jspx pages under WEB-INF
regards - rutwik

Rutwik,
From your reply it seems that, for now, there should not be any impact on us as long as we don't upgrade to JDeveloper 10.1.3.1, as anyway the current JHS version is not certified against it.
Correct.
However, to be compatible with future releases of JHS and JDeveloper, will it be good to change the location of pages in our JHeadStart definitions to move them a directories above the WEB-INF etc and re-run the JHeadStart generators?
Yes.
Or, will the patch take care of modifying the current JHeadStart definations?
No, Service Update 1 has a different default value for the pages dir , it is now /pages/ instead of /WEB-INF/page/, that's all.
Also, with this patch, will we be able to upgrade to jDeveloper 10.1.3.1, which we would like to do once we have a production release?
Yes, Service Update 1 is compatible with JDev 10.1.3.1
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.

[weblogic 8.1-sp4] taglibs not allowed any other place then under WEB-INF?

i pack my application as EAR with several skinny WARs + JAR libs under "lib" directory of EAR (and ofc WARs have their manifest adjusted to point to those). standard.jar is also there, no web.xml definition of the taglibs.
when i deploy the EAR, any of the JSPs throw famous IOException: "cannot resolve 'http://java.sun.com/jstl/core' into a valid tag library".
i dug a bit and saw people mention that TLDs are scanned for only when they are placed under WEB-INF of a WAR (hence you suck when your TLDs are somewhere else like "/lib" in my case) and classpath has nothing to do with that. is it true and what can be done to avoid it?
ps.
to clarify: servlets 2.3; jstl 1.0; jsp 1.2
Edited by: [email protected] on Dec 8, 2008 6:33 PM

well placing 10 taglib definitions in each web.xml is imho a bad idea. as there's no real way to exclude all but certain JARs from a WAR using maven (the ideal solution i'd prefer), the solution i had to choose was to set maven-dependency-plugin up the way it would extract the TLDs from certain JARs and place it anywhere under WEB-INF of the WAR when it's assembled. the cons is that TLDs are duplicated, but on the other hand the configuration for that is minimal (which also seems important to me).

DefaultServlet bug? forwarding to static content under WEB-INF

I've encountered what seems to be a bug in the DefaultServlet in WebServer 7.0u2, when trying to do a requestDispatch->forward to static content (e.g., a .png file) under WEB-INF. In general, I can forward into content under WEB-INF, and my servlet works fine when forwarding to dynamic content under WEB-INF (e.g., a .jsp file), but when I try to forward to static content, a 404 error is sent. The same servlet also works fine if I put the static content outside of WEB-INF. In summary:
forwarding to /WEB-INF/foo.png responds with error 404 (even though the content exists)
forwarding to /WEB-INF/foo.jsp works fine
forwarding to /other-dir/foo.png works fine
I'm baffled as to why I can't forward to static content under WEB-INF. I have a very simple web.xml file, and no suffix-based mappings, so the only servlet that should be responding to the forward is the servlet container's DefaultServlet. Is there some bug in DefaultServlet? Am I misunderstanding something?

pl. upgrade to latest update (web server 7 u5 as of now) and see if your problem is still reproduced.

Isp file under WEB-INF call css file and jasript file

Hi , is that OK to call a jascript file or css file if the jsp file is under WEB-INF? How to do that?

You have to remember that all client side requests will be of 2 types: relative or absolute. If you refer to the file using the absolute URL of the resource (like http://www.my.com/application/resources/content.css) then you will have no problem.
If you use a relative URL, the URL has to be relative to the address that the client sees on the browser. The JSP may be in the WEB-INF directory, but the client doesn't see that. They put in a URL like http://www.my.com/application/process and the server included/forwarded to the WEB-INF content which the client doesn't see or know about. So when you use a relative URL, the URL has to be relative to http://www.my.com/application/process and not to http://www.my.com/application/WEB-INF/<...>/display.jsp where the JSP actually lives.

Faces under WEB-INF

Would I run into any problems if I chose to place jsf enabled jsp's under the WEB-INF folder to take advantage of the fact the files here cannot be directly accessed?
I am thinking the faces servlet would be able to access them but I don't have much experience with JSF and don't want to take off in the wrong direction.
Any thoughts?

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com
David,
You'd likely be better to ask on the WTP newsgroup. I don't really
understand the problem you are describing but I suspect that if it's not
showing the content under that folder, it's showing the content
elsewhere in the view of that same project. Certainly if you use
"File->Show View->Navigator" it will show you more of a raw view of
what's actually there...
David wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a path displayed in the Package Explorer as
> "WebContent/WEB-INF/src". I'd like to edit the faces-config file in
> the WEB-INF directory. The trouble is that I can't list the contents
> of the WEB-INF directory, because it's just displaying the slashes.
>
> When I use windows explorer to view the folders, I can see the
> faces-config file listed under WEB-INF. It's just that Eclipse isn't
> displaying the hierarchy the way that I'd like it to.
> I know that this will be basic, but could I please get someone to
> explain how to display it as a hierarchy (with little +'s) rather than
> the path (with slashes).
>
> Thank you.
>
> David.
>

Error while accessing a war with xmlbeans under WEB-INF/lib

Hi All,
I am trying to deploy a WAR file with XMLBean generated jar under WEB-INF/lib folder along with other jars.
I am getting following error
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/xx/DataServiceRequestDocument
     at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
     at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2291)
     at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredField(Class.java:1880)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.getDeclaredSUID(ObjectStreamClass.java:1610)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.access$700(ObjectStreamClass.java:52)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass$2.run(ObjectStreamClass.java:425)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.<init>(ObjectStreamClass.java:413)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup0(ObjectStreamClass.java:310)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.lookup(ObjectStreamClass.java)
     at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.initNonProxy(ObjectStreamClass.java:547)
     at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1582)
     at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1495)
     at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1731)
     at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1328)
     at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:350)
     at com.tangosol.util.ExternalizableHelper.readSerializable(ExternalizableHelper.java:2216)
     at com.tangosol.util.ExternalizableHelper.readObjectInternal(ExternalizableHelper.java:2347)
     at com.tangosol.util.ExternalizableHelper.readObject(ExternalizableHelper.java:2290)
     at com.tangosol.io.DefaultSerializer.deserialize(DefaultSerializer.java:74)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.extend.Channel.deserialize(Channel.CDB:15)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readAsObject(PofBufferReader.java:3306)
     at com.tangosol.io.pof.PofBufferReader.readObject(PofBufferReader.java:2603)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.extend.messageFactory.InvocationServiceFactory$InvocationRequest.readExternal(InvocationServiceFactory.CDB:5)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.net.extend.Codec.decode(Codec.CDB:29)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Peer.decodeMessage(Peer.CDB:25)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.daemon.queueProcessor.service.Peer.onNotify(Peer.CDB:54)
     at com.tangosol.coherence.component.util.Daemon.run(Daemon.CDB:42)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
I tried multiple combinations like changing, but no success.
<wls:weblogic-web-app xmlns:wls="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.0/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
<wls:weblogic-version>10.3.2</wls:weblogic-version>
<wls:context-root>CoherenceWS</wls:context-root>
<wls:container-descriptor>
<wls:prefer-web-inf-classes>true</wls:prefer-web-inf-classes>
</wls:container-descriptor>
</wls:weblogic-web-app>
I have very few classes in WEB-INF/class (trying to load java objects from lib)
My WEB-INF/lib folder contains following jar
coherence.jar
commons-beanutils-1.8.0.jar
commons-collections-3.2.jar
commons-lang-2.4.jar
commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
dsRemoteCall.jar
ezmorph-1.0.jar
jackson-all-1.8.5.jar
json-lib-2.1-jdk13.jar
org.springframework.asm-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.beans-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.context-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.core-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.expression-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.oxm-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.web-3.1.0.M2.jar
org.springframework.web.servlet-3.1.0.M2.jar
schemaclasses.jar
xbean.jar
xom-1.2.7.jar
Am I missing something? Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks
sunder
Edited by: 868704 on Sep 6, 2011 6:10 PM

Note : schemaclasses.jar contains "com/xx/DataServiceRequestDocument" class file.
WebLogic Server 10.3.5.0
Thanks
sunder
Edited by: 868704 on Sep 6, 2011 6:26 PM

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