Taming Tomcat

Anatomy of a Webapp (ii): Layout of resources

• Magic directory WEB-INF
  • Content never directly served by Tomcat
    • Which means you can stick things in here you don't want users to be able to access
  • Contains main configuration file web.xml
    • Name is magic: it must be exactly that
  • Contains subdirectories
    • lib: any jar files - libraries you may want to use in your application
    • classes: Java class and resource files you may want to use
• Other directories for servable content
  • e.g. plain HTML, CSS, pictures, other media
  • JSP files

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