CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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emilly
emilly

Reputation: 10530

resource files under webapp/WEB-INF or src/main/resources?

In my project i see some xmls under src/main/webapp/WEB-INF while some under src/main/resources. Is there any convention what kind of file should go under these location

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2921

Answers (1)

Rajesh
Rajesh

Reputation: 384

src/main/resources contains Application/Library resources.

The Servlet 2.4 specification says this about WEB-INF:

A special directory exists within the application hierarchy named WEB-INF. This directory contains all things related to the application that aren’t in the document root of the application. The WEB-INF node is not part of the public document tree of the application. No file contained in the WEB-INF directory may be served directly to a client by the container. However, the contents of the WEB-INF directory are visible to servlet code using the getResource and getResourceAsStream method calls on the ServletContext, and may be exposed using the RequestDispatcher calls.

Upvotes: 5

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