Servlet for serving static content

Question

I deploy a webapp on two different containers (Tomcat and Jetty), but their default servlets for serving the static content have a different way of handling the URL structur

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I solved it by using the code of the 'default servlet' from the Tomcat codebase.

https://github.com/apache/tomcat/blob/master/java/org/apache/catalina/servlets/DefaultServlet.java

The DefaultServlet is the servlet that serves the static resources (jpg,html,css,gif etc) in Tomcat.

This servlet is very efficient and has some the properties you defined above.

I think that this source code, is a good way to start and remove the functionality or depedencies you don't need.

• References to the org.apache.naming.resources package can be removed or replaced with java.io.File code.
• References to the org.apache.catalina.util package are propably only utility methods/classes that can be duplicated in your source code.
• References to the org.apache.catalina.Globals class can be inlined or removed.