Question

I’m trying to create a war that is to be deployed in an EAR and that should contain only images.

My war source organization is as follows :

+---src
|   +---main
|   |   +---java
|   |   +---resources
|   |   |   \---META-INF
|   |   |       \---resources
|   |   |           \---images
|   |   |                   placeholder_image.jpg
|   |   |                   placeholder_template.png
|   |   |
|   |   \---webapp
|   |       \---WEB-INF
|   \---test
|       +---java
|       \---resources

and my war effective organization is

+---META-INF
\---WEB-INF
    \---classes
        \---META-INF
            \---resources
                \---images
                        placeholder_image.jpg
                        placeholder_template.png

The images I want to serve are in the src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/images folder.

I package this war using maven-war-plugin.

Under which url will those images be available on my local machine, provided my war is indicated as available under the http://localhost:8080/myapp/ path ?

Answer 1

None. Content from WEB-INF is not statically served, resources is for classpath resources. You need to put the images (folder) directly under webapp or add an servlet that serves the content.