Resource identifiers

In JSF 2.0, a resource is an image, document, or some other digital asset. They are placed under the resources folder at the web context folder. In a Gradle or Maven project, a particular resource lives on the path, as shown:

src/main/webapp/resources/<RESOURCE-IDENTIFIER>

A resource may also be stored in a JAR file under the WEB-INF/lib folder:

src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/<SOME>.jar

If the resource is stored in a JAR file, it must be located in the META-INF folder such that it can be located with the path:

META-INF/resources/<RESOURCE-IDENTIFIER>

RESOURCE-IDENTIFIER can be further divided into separate paths. The widest case supports full internalization. The constituent parts are as follows:

<RESOURCE-IDENTIFIER> := 
  [ <LOCALE-PREFIX> / ] [ <LIBRARY-NAME> / ] 
  [ <LIBRARY-VERSION> / ]
  <RESOURCE-NAME> [ / <RESOURCE-VERSION> ]

The subterms allow the resource identifiers to be easily identified and separated out.

The...