Can I use EL for external CSS files with JSF?

Question

In external style sheets of my current JSF project, there are hard-coded links to external resources like

.someId { background-image:url(/context/resources/i         


        

Answer 1

No, you can't. You have several options:

• hard-code absolute paths (domain relative, of course) - not that bad
• use relative paths - can be a problem when you have nested urls like /view/external/foo/bar.jsf
• preprocess them during build to set the proper paths
• use a Filter (and both client and server-side caching) to set the proper paths.

(I feel I'm missing something)