Web application with Enunciate: where to put the static resources

Question

I use Enunciate (http://enunciate.codehaus.org/) for our web-service layer and I just want to do something very simple but do not find any documentation.

I want to deploy some images and other static resources and to be accessible from e.g http://localhost:8080/myapp/images/img01.png

I tried to create a folder images under src/main/resources but it is not deployed like I want (all files/folder inside there goes to myapp/WEB-INF/classes, which as expected).

Someone can point me where are the static resources with the enunciate project?

I do not have the web.xml as it is automatically generated by the enunciate framework.

Answer 1

In fact I found how to do it and I publish my solution as an answer

In our pom.xml, we refers the enunciate.xml path like this:

 <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.enunciate</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-enunciate-spring-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${enunciate.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <configFile>src/conf/enunciate.xml</configFile>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>assemble</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

and in the enunciate.xml file:

<webapp postBase="web"></webapp>

which means the static resources can be put in src/conf/web/ and then my folder called images will simply located in: src/conf/web/images.

Like this all these static resources will be accessible by http://localhost:8080/myappcontext/images/

The enunciate documentation shows the option available for the webapp element:

• preBase is a folder or zipped archive which will be copied before the enunciate generation
• postBase is a folder of zipped archive which will be copied after the enunciate generation

For the images and other static resources there should not be any difference using one of these attributes.