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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:

background:url("#{resource['sunny:images/header.png']}")

<http://primefaces.prime.com.tr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3774&start=0>

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" 
href="#{request.contextPath}/css/theme/login.css" />

<http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1717161&tstart=-2&messageID=7177962>

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.  For example, this:

<h:outputStylesheet name="css/login.css" />

renders as this:

<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" 
href="/solicitacoes/javax.faces.resource/css/login.css.xhtml" />

where "solicitacoes" is apparently the web context root.

<http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1717161&tstart=-2&messageID=7177962>


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.