managing .war files and external ressources

Hello.

I have plans of moving away from a dir for my web application such as

tomcat/webapp/myapp

to distributing it as a .war file instead.

However, how do I handle external ressources that do not fit into the
war file such as images, sounds and user specific files? When I just
have all my jsp files and stuff in the webapps I had simple had folders
such as img/ sound/ etc... I don't want to put all that into the war
file...

thanks
Sachias

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