Re: Default Content Type for extensionless files

Fritz,
I'd recommend that you use a servlet filter. You will still need
something that maps files to content types but, a servlet filter along
the lines of the following should get you going.

public class ContentTypeFilter implements Filter {

    public void doFilter(
        ServletRequest req,
        ServletResponse resp,
        FilterChain chain)
        throws IOException, ServletException {

        String contentType = lookupType(req);
        resp.setContentType(contentType);
        chain.doFilter(req,resp);
    }
    private String lookupType(ServletRequest req){
        // Implement me
        return "text/html"; // sample default value
    }
}

Just implement your content type lookup method, and add the reference
to the filter in your web.xml and you should be good to go.
hth