Exposing/serving files via JBoss

[mikes3959]

How do I expose/serve files using JBoss? In other words, the user should click on a network link like: http://www.mysite.com/file.kmz and read the file. Let me explain in detail, I'm generating a Google Earth file (kml/kmz) and others running Google Earth need to access it via the network link. The Google Earth client will constantly check the network link for this updated file. Can I write this file to a special JBoss directory that exposes it or do I need to create a war file that serves this file? And how do I do this? Can someone code me a sample?

[peterj]

You can create your own WAR as an exploded deployment (http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/ExplodedDeployment) and place the files in there. You might have to add a mime-type to the web.xml (see the global web.xml at server/xxx/deployers/jbossweb.deployer for an example)

P.S. You never said which version of JBoss AS so I assumed the latest - 5.x. If you are using a 4.x version I'll leave you to find the global web.xml.