images not appearing in jsp in netbeans

Question

I am working on a project in netbeans . I designed my webpage in dreamweaver, and copied the code in a jsp in my netbeans project. then I created an images folder under WEB-INF and stored the images used in my webpage . I also changed the path of my "img src" to that local path . But when I run it in my browser the images don't show up !

Please help ...

this is my package

here's my sample code:

<td width="610"><div id="logom"><img src="WEB-INF/images/webDes.png" width="323" height="167" alt="logomain" /></div></td>

is `WEB-INF/images/webDes.png` path correct relative to your current page??? — NoobEditor, Jan 19 '14 at 15:09
yes it is . I have home.jsp under MyProj and my images under WEB-INF Which in turn is under MyProj . — That-Kickass-GirL, Jan 19 '14 at 15:44
Contents of the WEB-INF folder is not accessible to a browser. If you really want to place your images there, then you need to use a Servlet to serve them. — rickz, Jan 19 '14 at 16:31
@That-Kickass-GirL : go to source code and click on the image link....if it doesnt open, then either you have permissions problem to the images folder or images is not there at all!! — NoobEditor, Jan 19 '14 at 17:13
Look at answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19786142/what-is-web-inf-used-for-in-a-java-web-application — rickz, Jan 19 '14 at 18:01

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 20 '14 at 00:35

According to JSR-000315, page 121:

A special directory exists within the application hierarchy named "WEB-INF"...no other files contained in the WEB-INF directory may be served directly to a client by the container.

and page 122:

any requests to access the resources in META-INF directory must be returned with a SC_NOT_FOUND(404) response.

Conclusion: Normally you don't place your static resources such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript into either META-INF/ or WEB-INF/ especially when the project is imported(?) from Dreamweaver. Now I understand some might disagree w/ me on this coz there're actually ways (via JEE or framework) to archive that goal, and I have to admit that they are correct alrite. Although based on your background I assumed, I don't think you're incorporating JEE or any other framework on the project. So in your case, you might just wanna avoid using WEB-INF/ (as well as META-INF/) directly.

I already posted this information in the comments above here. — rickz, Jan 20 '14 at 01:13
@rickz: I realize you did, but I thought That-Kickass-GirL might find my answer a little bit easier to understand. If it is redundant, feel free to down vote or delete it. :) — 高科技黑手, Jan 20 '14 at 02:05

images not appearing in jsp in netbeans

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