Use resources from module in web application

[faldric]

I have a very big JAR file containing images and other resources I want to expose via my web application. I decided to put it into a module so I can replace the resource JAR easily. So far everything is working fine and I can load the files in code easily. What I wanted to ask is: In a WAR its pretty easy to simply expose a folder of images under your web context if the JAR is in lib(WEB-INF/lib/{\*.jar}/META-INF/resources (Bistro!) ). Can I do something like this if the JAR is a module thats provided. Or do I have to write my own FileServlet? 

[ctomc]

given that is in resources you would need to some coding anyway.

I would suggest writing undertow ServletExtension http://undertow.io/undertow-docs/undertow-docs-1.3.0/index.html#servlet-extensions

where you can register handler that will serve files from your resource, all you need to do is create ResourceHandler and pass him ResourceManager http://undertow.io/javadoc/1.3.x/io/undertow/server/handlers/resource/ResourceManager.html

There are already quite few implementations including ClassPathResourceManager that could probably work for what you want, in other case just override #getResource method with your own impl and that is.

[faldric]

Thank you. Had to do some tinkering but the approach worked out.