How can I get Tomcat to serve external JSP's

Question

I have a war that also needs to serve jsp's from alternative external directories. In weblogic this is achieved with virtual directory mappings.

Is there a clean way to achieve this with Tomcat?

Dup? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1775700/jsp-files-in-external-directory — skaffman, Nov 23 '09 at 14:13
Dup2? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/195437/loading-jsp-pages-from-custom-sources — David Rabinowitz, Nov 23 '09 at 15:03

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '09 at 15:02

Depends of the case:

If the entire context is in an external directory, you can have a context xml file that points at that directory(docBase="/external/directory")
If you have an open deploy (not war file) on any unix system, you can have a symbolic link to the external directory. Notice that redeploys may ruin this.
If you want just a single directory and doesn't want to (or can't) use symbolic links, the the answer is no.

How can I get Tomcat to serve external JSP's

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