Accessing contents under WEB-INF directory

[Jignesh Gohel]

Hello,

Please let me know how we can access the contents under WEB-INF directory.

For e.g if i have project directory structure like below:

webapp
WEB-INF
jsp
jsp files...
js
javascript files....
classes
lib


Now if i want to use a javascript file externally in my jsp page what path to provide as the contents under WEB-INF are not accessible??

Thanks.

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Use servletContext.getResourceAsStream(resource_name)

[David O'Meara]

You cannot directly access anything in the WEB-INF directory from the client. If you want to do anything like that you need to use a servlet as an intermediary

[Bear Bibeault]

So why, if you want them to be directly accessible, did you place the Javascript files under WEB-INF?