How to refer Images outside JBOSS_HOME?

[smyogesh]

Hi

I am working as a J2EE programmer.
I am new to JBOSS server.
And, I am developing an application "myapp.ear".

The application is running in Linux server.

I placed myapp.ear file in the following location:
/opt/jboss-3.2.6/server/default/deploy/myapp.ear.

The HTML files are referring the images outside the JBOSS_HOME.

Images are stored in the following location:
/var/myapp/images.war/one.gif

When I run the application, images are not displayed. I am getting a red colored "x" mark with a blank area.

I referred the jboss-service.xml file under:
/opt/jboss-3.2.6/server/default/conf/ directory.

I added the file:/var/myapp/images.war to the "attribute name="URLs"" tag of jboss-service.xml file.

Then, the tag has the follwoing value:
deploy/, file:/var/myapp/images.war

Still the image is not displayed.

What are things needed to be configured in JBOSS to fix this image display issue?

Please help me to fix this.

Thanks,
smyogesh.

[renkrad]

You must use a servlet to acess and write the image content to the client.

My advice is for you to add the images to your war, unless those images are part of a client specific repository in that case the images are dinamic so a servlet is necessary.

[smyogesh]

Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your reply.
I read some of the XML files in the "conf" directory of JBOSS and came to know that I have to modify the jboss-service.xml file for "Hot Deployment", and then I did it.

Modify the following tag in the jboss-service.xml file:
attribute name="URLs" with the following value....
deploy/,file:/var/myapp/


I had "images.war" under "/var/myapp". First, JBOSS searches for .war and .ear files under the usual "deploy" directory and if "images.war" is not available, then it will search the "/var/myapp" directory. And it found out the images.war under "/var/myapp".

Now, my problem is fixed.

Thanks,
smyogesh.

Reference:
http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ConfiguringTheDeploymentScannerInConfjbossSystem.xml