Question

I have a folder, “js”, inside my WEB-INF folder and it holds javascript files. I can’t get the server to retrieve them using the url localhost:8084/appname/js/file.js but everything else defined in my web.xml file works fine.

Web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app>

   <servlet>
        <servlet-name>MeasurementNodesController</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.mycompany.MeasurementNodesController</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>MeasurementNodesController</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/MeasurementNodes</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

    <resource-ref>
        <res-ref-name>jdbc/datasource</res-ref-name>
        <res-ref-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-ref-type>
    </resource-ref>

    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
</web-app>

Answer 1

Anything in the WEB-INF folder is unavailable to the outside world. WEB-INF is only available internally for Forwards and such.

You’ll need to move the JS out of WEB-INF to be able to use it.