In Tomcat, you'd just drop in a new context.xml and specify a docBase
attribute in it (see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1812244/simplest-way-to-serve-static-data-from-outside-the-application-server-in-a-java).
Jetty had something similar, see their docs.
Kalle
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:47 PM, D.R. <d.re...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kalle,
>
> sounds nice, how do i setup a new context and use it?
>
> Kind regards
> David
>
>
> On 11.05.2016 07:38, Kalle Korhonen wrote:
>
>> If you are serving static files but want to keep the deployment simple,
>> it's very straight forwarded to set up a new context, such as /images/ to
>> purely serve static resources. I've done it in a few occasions and the
>> nice
>> thing about it is that you don't really need more than one liner in an xml
>> file and you can configure the resource "webapplication" with very
>> aggressive caching settings (at least Tomcat allows caching and serving
>> everything from memory).
>>
>> Kalle
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:29 PM, D.R. <d.re...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jens,
>>>
>>> thanks for answer. No, not really what i want.
>>>
>>> I would like to write in my .tml
>>> <img src="${asset:myasset:images/image.jpg}" alt="image"/>
>>>
>>> which renders something like:
>>> <img src="/myassets/images/image.jpg" alt="image">
>>> and take a file from the filesystem by a defined path.
>>>
>>> I think for that the ExternalUrlAssetFactory is not doing what i want and
>>> i have to deal with my own impl of AssetFactory and Resource.
>>>
>>> In the meantime i found a solution from Lance which do similar what i
>>> want:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30478306/tapestry-load-image-asset-from-filesystem
>>>
>>> But i think more and more it is better to use an image server for that
>>> issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards (also to Bobby)
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10.05.2016 12:16, Jens Breitenstein wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi David!
>>>>
>>>> If I look at the classes implementing AssetFactory there is
>>>> ExternalUrlAssetFactory, maybe this is what you want
>>>> (file:///your-dir/your-asset.png)?
>>>> AssetModule.java configures all context asset factories so you have to
>>>> contribute
>>>>
>>>> configuration.add("file", new ExternalAssetFactory("file"))
>>>>
>>>> in your module, too. I have to admit, I did not test it, just browsing
>>>> the T5.4 sources.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jens
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 10/05/16 um 08:53 schrieb D.R.:
>>>>
>>>> Hi @all,
>>>>>
>>>>> i need a new asset domain to have access to the filesystem.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the doc http://tapestry.apache.org/assets.html
>>>>> they say you "may define a new AssetFactory and contribute it to the
>>>>> AssetSource service configuration"
>>>>>
>>>>> I have no idea how to deal with the two methods. Please help. What i
>>>>> have to do in Order to get access to files on my filesystem?
>>>>>
>>>>> public AssetFactory buildAssetFactory()
>>>>> {
>>>>> return new AssetFactory(){
>>>>>
>>>>> @Override
>>>>> public Asset createAsset(Resource arg0)
>>>>> {
>>>>> return null;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> @Override
>>>>> public Resource getRootResource() {
>>>>> return null;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> };
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Kind regards
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
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