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Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app

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On Wed, 25 May 2011, markspace wrote:

> On 5/24/2011 10:16 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> 
>> It doesn't help you deal with this in resources which are not 
>> programmatic, like static CSS, so here you have to depend on relative 
>> references. This doesn't strike me as difficult - you decide early on 
>> to keep all your css under /contextpath/css, and your site furniture 
>> images under /contextpath/images, and then because CSS image paths are 
>> relative to the stylesheet, in your CSS you can write:
>> 
>> background:url(../images/bbg.jpg) left top repeat;
>
> Thanks for replying Tom, but this doesn't appear to be quite correct. 
> According to some sources on the 'net, you CAN put EL expressions in 
> static CSS resources: [...] This works because apparently when you load 
> with a Faces tag like h:outputStylesheet, it emits HTML that loads the 
> static resource through the Faces servlet.

In which case it's not static CSS! Anything that gets mangled by code 
before being served is dynamic, and is able to evade this problem.

> I really appreciated you guys trying to help me out, but I'm really 
> frustrated at the lack of a single, authoritative source where all this 
> is spelled out. I looked in the JSF 2.1 spec and it barely even mentions 
> h:outputStylesheet, and certainly doesn't discuss its tags or parameters 
> anywhere that I could find.

So the "all this" you'd like to see spelled out is JSF? I can't comment - 
i have never used JSF, and have absolutely no desire to. I'm surprised and 
disappointed to hear that JSF is poorly documented, since it's a flagship 
J2EE technology. I think the servlet and JSP specs (i'm thinking of 
javadocs, actually) do explain their parts of this reasonably well, FWIW.

tom

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Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-23 12:11 -0700
  Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-23 15:30 -0400
    Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-23 12:41 -0700
    Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-23 13:10 -0700
      Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-23 17:02 -0400
        Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app jebblue <n@n.nnn> - 2011-05-23 19:30 -0500
          Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-23 21:13 -0400
        Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-24 09:32 -0700
  Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-05-23 19:01 -0300
  Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 23:20 -0400
  Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-24 18:16 +0100
    Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-25 12:16 -0700
      Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-25 16:40 -0700
      Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-26 18:07 +0100
        Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-26 13:25 -0400
          Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-26 12:57 -0700
            Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-26 19:39 -0400
              Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-05-27 07:31 -0300
                Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-27 10:14 -0400
        Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app markspace <-@.> - 2011-05-26 12:51 -0700
        Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-26 14:51 -0700

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