Application home page from servlet

[antony_s]

Hi,

I am developing a web application in Java EE, which will be deployed on JBoss at the root of a public web server. The home page needs to be served through a servlet, not just an index file.

I have set the context-root of the application to '/', and also tried setting the the url-pattern of a servlet to '/' - but of course, all requests are now being routed through this, so static resources such as images and CSS files are not being served.

It is a very simple objective to want to achieve, yet seems complex in practice. Do you have any suggestions on what I should try, or if there are any documentation resources may have missed?

I appreciate your support.

[antony_s]

I think I may have solved this - just put a <jsp:include> tag in the index.jsp page to include the servlet page I wanted. Will update if there are any problems.

[antony_s]

Actually by doing this, the server console is reporting the following exception:

ERROR [[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception java.io.IOException: Stream closed

So if anyone does have any suggestions for how to resolve this I would appreciate it. Thanks.

[antony_s]

Used <c:import> instead and now this issue is resolved. Still if anyone has any better solutions to this, that don't involve an include of any sort, I would be interested to hear.