Chris I like your approach. Thanks all I learned the tomcat context concept from your guys...need to look into it. Vishwanath
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kiran, > > On 9/11/12 10:44 PM, Kiran Badi wrote: > > On 9/8/2012 4:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > >> Regarding the aliases feature: > >> > >> single path -> multiple file paths: No multiple different > >> non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes > >> > >> As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is > >> present in documentation. > > Thanks Konstantin, it seems to be working perfectly fine. > > > > This is how I am doing it now, > > > > <Context > > > aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages,/st=c:/st,/sb=c:/sb,/UploadedImages/scr=c:/UploadedImages/scr,/UploadedImages/scyr=c:/UploadedImages/scyr,/UploadedImages/sem=c:/UploadedImages/sem"> > > > > > > > > Now I have one clarification, I am going need close to 150 > > categories(think of marketplace) and there will be fair amount of > > images upload which my users will be doing. > > > > I expect the aliases to grow till 150 to 200 paths, do you feel > > this is correct.I am not sure as how large sites deal when they > > have heavy volumes of images getting uploaded on daily basis. > > Large sites will use a single URL that ends up resolving the images > from some kind of data source. That data source might be a disk (e.g. > you could forward to the DefaultServlet) or a database (relational or > otherwise) where you would write your own servlet to retrieve the data > yourself. > > I would use a servlet that gets the image identifier from the request > parameters or "path info" and then continues from there. As Konstantin > points out, using Tomcat's "aliases" feature means that these requests > may have to perform a linear search through all the aliases to find > the requested resource. If you write a custom servlet, it will likely > perform much better than that. > > Hope that helps, > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlBRSGUACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAIbACfYgbM2eyv5TD8uYC7GfV2taUB > uOAAn1RHpGwal9jkMe6HRiBazEAJ6CCa > =jqvA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
