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Asked: 2026-05-22T00:18:51+00:00

I am relatively new at Java EE and have just gotten familiar with the

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I am relatively new at Java EE and have just gotten familiar with the traditional application directory structure (which includes the BUILD, DIST, NBPROJECT, SRC, and WEB folders). I was wondering: if my application requires to use some resources/assets (such as images or pdfs) on the server, in which of the 5 folders listed above should I place those resources? I think I can technically place them anywhere, as long as I reference the files correctly, but not sure what the common best practice is for this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You would usually include static content e.g. images or PDFs which need to be read by http requests in WebContent e.g. if my-web is your WAR project:

    my-web/WebContent/images
my-web/WebContent/scripts
my-web/WebContent/misc

    This means you can access using for example:

    /my-web/images/bob.jpg
/my-web/scripts/bob.js
/my-web/misc/bob.pdf

    Storing the files here allows public access. I will quote this from the Eclipse help pages:

    The Web content folder represents the
    contents of the WAR file that will be
    deployed to the server. Any files not
    under the Web content folder are
    considered development-time resources
    (for example, .java files, .sql files,
    and .mif files), and are not deployed
    when the project is unit tested or
    published.

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