title: How do I configure tomcat to serve static content independently without modifying the web.xml file?
body: <p>We have a very small webapp with the frontend built by a group that uses Javascript a lot.  They have so much Javascript, in fact, that the Javascript directory for common "external" Javascript (which is not application specific) is 13.2 MB.</p>
  
  <p>When building, it takes a while (especially if a clean build is done) to transfer this javascript into a WAR file.  I'd like to be able to delete the external directory from the build script and serve it statically, eliminating this copying step, but I don't know how to serve static content from Tomcat without using the "default" servlet, which would require changes to the web.xml file.</p>
  
  <p>How can this be done without changing the web.xml file, or any code that is currently in the WAR file?</p>