Re: Dealing with application names in a JEE web app
On Wed, 25 May 2011, markspace wrote:
On 5/24/2011 10:16 AM, Tom Anderson wrote:
It doesn't help you deal with this in resources which are not
programmatic, like static CSS, so here you have to depend on relative
references. This doesn't strike me as difficult - you decide early on
to keep all your css under /contextpath/css, and your site furniture
images under /contextpath/images, and then because CSS image paths are
relative to the stylesheet, in your CSS you can write:
background:url(../images/bbg.jpg) left top repeat;
Thanks for replying Tom, but this doesn't appear to be quite correct.
According to some sources on the 'net, you CAN put EL expressions in
static CSS resources: [...] This works because apparently when you load
with a Faces tag like h:outputStylesheet, it emits HTML that loads the
static resource through the Faces servlet.
In which case it's not static CSS! Anything that gets mangled by code
before being served is dynamic, and is able to evade this problem.
I really appreciated you guys trying to help me out, but I'm really
frustrated at the lack of a single, authoritative source where all this
is spelled out. I looked in the JSF 2.1 spec and it barely even mentions
h:outputStylesheet, and certainly doesn't discuss its tags or parameters
anywhere that I could find.
So the "all this" you'd like to see spelled out is JSF? I can't comment -
i have never used JSF, and have absolutely no desire to. I'm surprised and
disappointed to hear that JSF is poorly documented, since it's a flagship
J2EE technology. I think the servlet and JSP specs (i'm thinking of
javadocs, actually) do explain their parts of this reasonably well, FWIW.
tom
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