Any clever ways of handling the context in a web app?

Question

In Java, web apps are bundled in to WARs. By default, many servlet containers will use the WAR name as the context name for the application.

Thus myapp.war gets depl

Answer 1

I've used helper classes to generate img tags etc. This helper class takes care of prefixing paths with the application's contextPath. (This works, but I don't really like it. If anyone has any better alternatives, please tell.)

For paths in css files etc. I use an Ant build script that uses a site.production.css for site.css in production environment and site.development.css in development encironment.

Alternatively I sometimes use an Ant script that replaces @token@ tokens with proper data for different environents. In this case @contextPAth@ token would be replaced with the correct context path.