The default servlet for Tomcat is declared in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml : <servlet> <servlet-name>default</servle... Therefore, static content is rendered by the default configuration unless you override it with your own definitions. If you want to allow directory listing, just change the listing parameter to true : <init-param> <param-name>listings</para... Change the welcome-file-list to display a default page in lieu of a directory listing: <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>home.xhtml</... Welcome pages are defined at the Web application level.

Actually there is an easy solution: change the name of the war file at deployment! Sample ant task: <target name="deploy" depends="package"> <c...

Thanks Dr.Xi, I was having a tough time changing the deployment context path of my web-app using the so-called context.xml file under /META-INF, it dint work (tomcat documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html , seemed pretty sure it would :() But I have one question, as changing server.xml is too instrusive for every web-app you build, is there any other way of pushing this configuration to one of the application specific files ? thanks, Venky

Some example snippets for Spring message configuration and usage. To configure a message source in Spring context (basename=messages): <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springf... Locale change interceptor can also be setup with: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... The messages file should be named messages.properties (or messages_en.properties , etc.) and located on CLASSPATH , for example: WEB-INF/classes . To use a message resource in JSP: <%@ taglib prefix="spring" uri="http://www.springf...

The annotation @org.hibernate.annotations.Type overrides the default hibernate mapping type used for a column. This can usually be omitted since Hibernate normaly infers the correct type to use. But @Type is required in ambiguous scenarios such as a java.util.Date attribute, which can map to SQL DATE , TIME or TIMESTAMP . You use the @Type("timestamp") annotation to tell Hibernate that a timestamp converter should be used, which identifies an instance of org.hibernate.type.TimestampType . @Type can also be used to identify custom type converters, which can be defined with @TypeDef at the class level: @TypeDefs( { @TypeDef( na... or with an xml file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE hibernate-mappi...

Video for Everybody seems to be a generic way to embed video in a web page, even without flash. This code snippet comes from that site. <!-- first try HTML5 playback: if serving as XML, ...

You can define environment variables in the Tomcat context.xml file like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context... which is equivalent to the following in web.xml : <env-entry> <env-entry-name>varName</env-entr... In Java code, the variable can be looked up like this: // import javax.naming.Context; // import javax...

Maven is a powerful yet complex tool. When I started learning Maven, the first obstacle was, of course, its complexity. The second, was the lack of documentation that can get me off the ground quickly. This tutorial is an attempt to create a pragmatic guide that aims to get you familiar with Maven in the quickest way possible. The main theme is to get you on some hands on experience to start out and lead you through the creation of a simple Java EE project as quickly as possible. Instead of trying to give you a good read, I try to get you on the journey right away. The topics are roughly ordered by the logical sequence but you can jump around in any way...

These are the minimum steps to configure Spring MVC in web.xml : Bootstrap Spring MVC by registering ContextLoaderListener : <listener> <listener-class> org.springfra... Register the DispatcherServlet : <servlet> <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name> ... Add servlet-mapping : <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>spring</servle... Configure DispatcherServlet with WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml , which configures WebApplicationContext specific to this servlet. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <beans x... Optionally, use context-param in web.xml to configure the global WebApplicationContext : <!-- XmlWebApplicationContext is the default, so t... If you omit this section, you have to create file WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml , even if it's empty. This is the full web.xml : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app...

Tomcat documentation states: If the web application is packaged as a WAR then /META-INF/context.xml will be copied to $CATALINA_BASE/conf/ [enginename] / [hostname] / and renamed to match the application's context path . For a Maven project, put context.xml in src/main/webapp/META-INF/ .