Servlet forward JSP, image problem

[Jaime Garcia]

I am using servlets for db operations, etc. and jsp for presentation. But, when I do a forward from a servlet to a JSP, all the image, css, etc. paths keep with the servlet URL (the browser dose not know about the forward, i guess).
I used a propertie to set this path in the jsp, so I have <img src="<%=prop.IMG_PATH%>/x.gif>, but it becomes dificult to edit the Graphical design, so, Is there a better way to do this and keep the relative path of the images ?.

[Eelco den Heijer]

Hi, I recognize your problem, I've encountered it myself a few times. I can only say that the solution I came up with is more or less the same as the one you have (keeping the path from the web context stored in a constant or property)... It seems that if you do a forward every notion of 'current location' in the web app is gone....

[William Brogden]

HTML provides a BASE tag that you could put in your JSP to define where resouces such as CSS and images come from. A BASE tag goes in the HEAD area of an HTML page like:

 
<BASE HREF="http://myserver/someapp/resources" >
 

now any relative url for an image will be interpreted by the browser as coming from that base.
Bill

[Jaime Garcia]

Thanks, good solution