Using static resources outside the context root

[jacklty]

Is there an easy way to configure JBoss to read static resources (images, pdf, etc) from a specific location without using servlet to handle the request.

For example, I have all those files saved in C:\archive\ and if user sends in a request - http://www.abc.com/webapp/report.pdf, it will go to the specific location to read that file instead of the context root of the webapp.

In web.xml, we have something called <servlet-mapping? which can tell jboss to parse the url pattern and decide which servlet should handle the request. Does JBoss have something similar for static resources?

Thanks

[peterj]

See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories

[jacklty]

thank you so much.

Now I can tell JBoss to load those images and pdfs from different location.