Tomcat Virtual Directory

I wrote a search application that returns database records, and based upon the key field in database, retrieve a picture from a separate picture repository on the server. My question is how can i set up my webapp to access my repository? Info: IDE- Netbeans 4.1 version- Tomcat 5.5

using directory outside of webapp

Tomcat version: 5.5.9 Tomcat directory: /etc/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/ I have a JSP page that displays search results and, based on a unique identifier for each result, displays a picture of each result. The pictures are located outside of the tomcat directory structure, in a separate