Question

I have a maven project that I run using jetty:

$ mvn run:jetty

Where in my project should I be storing my static files like HTML, CSS, Javascript, images?

My layout is using a simple web app arch type:

/src/main/java/webapp/web-inf/views/

Should I just create a folder there named e.g. ‘assets’ ?

And then my view pages will reference the /assets folder somehow? I’m confused as to what path I will use in my html pages to reference an image like:

/assets/images/logo.png

Answer 1

This isn’t so much a Jetty question as it is a general Java webapp question. If you plan to serve them out directly (like *.css, *.css, images, etc), put them somewhere above WEB-INF but below your docroot. Java WebApps are all the following basic directory structure.

<docroot>
  +WEB-INF/
    +lib/
    +classes/

Anything in <docroot> is reachable directly through straight up http. Anything WEB-INF and below is not. A really simple webapp with one page (index.jsp), one image in an images directory, and its configuration file (web.xml) would look like this.

index.jsp
images/bob.jpg
WEB-INF/
  web.xml
  lib/
  classes/

In index.jsp you could reference bob.jpg like…

<img src="images/bob.jpg"/>