Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello all,

We are using Tomcat, standing alone, as our application server (we have relatively little static content). Is it possible to configure Tomcat to serve a static file (like an html or .pdf file) from someplace outside Tomcat's directory structure? For example, if I have this directory structure:

/[tomcat home]/webapps/someApp/html

I am able to access html files in the html directory with a URL of http://[machine]:8080/someApp/html/file.html.

However, what if my html file is in this directory: /extras/outputs/html ?

I would guess that there is some kind of URL-actual directory mapping that can be done in the Web.xml
file, but I don't know what that might be.

Any help would me most appreciated. (We are running Tomcat on a Unix (AIX) system).

Thanks,

-- John