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Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app

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On 05/23/2011 03:11 PM, markspace wrote:
> 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?

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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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