Mapping a physical directory to a virtual directory

[creatureoflegend]

Is there a way to map a physical directory either inside of the jboss folder or somewhere else on the hard-drive to a virtual directory accessable through the online url in JBoss?

for example:
D://Jboss#.##/something/images/
is
http://my.url.com/images/

Our app needs to allow users to uplaod images and html stuff that goes w/ them, but we can't re-build the war file every time someone does that. The html is stored in the database. We need them to be able to hardcode a url in the html code's src tag for the directory to access images there.

Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks :)

[peterj]

There is no configuration setting that does this for you. But you could write a servlet for "/something/*" that interprets the url and grabs the desired file from the hard drive. A similar mechanism is used by the CMS subsystem of the JBoss Portal.

[creatureoflegend]

That's a good idea.

thank you very much! :)