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From: Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app
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Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 23:20:59 -0400
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On 2011-05-23 15:11:32 -0400, markspace said:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm delving more heavily into JSP/Servlets and JSF at the moment.  I've 
> found something that looks like a questionable design issue by the JEE 
> folks at Sun (now Oracle, of course) and I'd like to pick your brains 
> about how you might deal with it.
> 
> Basically, when developing a JEE web app, the application name gets 
> inserted into every URL and associated path.  If my app is named 
> TechDarwinia, for example, then all URLS look like this:
> 
> http://localhost:8080/TechDarwinia/
> http://localhost:8080/TechDarwinia/faces/readPost.xhtml
> http://localhost:8080/TechDarwinia/rsrc/css/style.css
> 
> The problem is of course that the web app could be renamed anything by 
> the deployer/sysop, and I've got strings hard coded to that app name 
> TechDarwinia.
> 
> So how do folks write their apps so that they can handle being deployed 
> under different names?

<c:url> and equivalent tools that inspect the actual context path (the 
"/TechDarwinia/" part of your URL) for the request, largely.

-o