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

@Bozho: JSF allows to define a ResourceHandler to replace the standard one. You could just subclass javax.faces.application.ResourceHandler, handle specific requests and delegate others to the base class.

For the given example, the custom resource handler should determine the context and replace absolute path definitions. This enables dynamic path resolution on a per-request base.