Setting KML / KMZ Mime Types in JBoss 5.0

[mduffy]

We are hosting our application on JBoss 5.0

We have KML and KMX download files for Google Earth. Everything works fine when a user is using the Firefox browser; however, with Internet Explorer the KML files are downloaded into the web page as text/xml and the KMZ files are downloaded as zip files.

Apparently, we need to set the appropriate mime types in JBoss. I am not sure where they go, but I think the values are:

AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml
AddType application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz

A solution would be greatly appreciated.

Mike

[peterj]

Look near the end of the file server/xxx/deployers/jbossweb.deployer/web.xml

[mduffy]

Thx Peter.

This worked perfectly.

I added the following to the web.xml in /opt/jboss-5.0.0.GA/server/default/deployers/jbossweb.deployer

<mime-mapping>
kml
<mime-type>application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
kmz
<mime-type>application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>

As a suggestion, I think this should be added to future releases of JBoss.

Mike

[aeroju]

Hi, Mike,

I also meet this problem, and after I add following:

<mime-mapping>
kml
<mime-type>application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>

both google map and google earth could not open the KML file on my server, and after I change it to:

<mime-mapping>
kml
<mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>

google earth could open it, but google map could not, is there any other setup required?

Thanks,