Is there a standard way to do user directories. I am working on a web application that will allow users to upload files and stuff like that... into their own directories they will be viewing these files using a url like this:

site.com/userfiles/username/user-created-file.html
or
site.com/~username/user-created-file.html

something like that.

Is there a standard way to do this on jboss/tomcat? I do not want to put these files in the deploy directory, and I would rather not have jboss deploy each and every directory whenever it starts up.. I noticed this happening when I tried using:

<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig"
 directoryName="." homeBase="c:\userdata"
 userClass="org.apache.catalina.startup.HomesUserDatabase"/>