what is request.conextPath and file structure

[samwun9988]

Hi,

I am wondering what value does request.contextPath returns in primefaces showcase.
I found the following line of codes written in ui.xhtml file:

ui.xhtml file:

<title>PrimeFaces - ShowCase</title>
<meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="#{request.contextPath}/css/default.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="#{request.contextPath}/themes/#{guestPreferences.theme}/skin.css" />
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="#{request.contextPath}/syntaxhighlighter/styles/syntaxhighlighter.css" />

Should my css, themes, and templates etc folders must put under web/ folder, so that request.contextgPath returns the correct path which is "<my applicaiton context path>/", as shown below?

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web
   |- WEB-INF
   |- css
   |- themes
   |- templates
   |- images
   |- ui

Another question is why primefaces showcase have a faces-config.xml file but my application doesn't need one?

Very appreciate for any suggestion.
Sam.

[bumble.bee]

To see what getContextPath does look at the API docs:

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api ... textPath()

You can also just use an h:outputText component to display its value onto a page and see what it is in your particular environment.

If you are going to rely on the JSF resource loader using the concept of resource libraries you would organize your resources like:

resources/js
resources/css
resources/img

Old way of including resources from a page (if you need to control media type for example):

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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="#{request.contextPath}/resources/css/print.css"/>

Or just use the JSF resource loader, for example:

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<h:outputStylesheet library="css" name="mystyle.css"/>

As for why you may not need a faces-config.xml - JSF uses configuration by exception, which means reasonable default values are assumed for most things and you only need to configure something if you're making an exception or doing something non-default.