title: Java web app with an external resource directory
body: <p>I have a site that runs as a Java war file.  This is fine, except for referencing the sitemap.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to configure Java/Spring/Tomcat to have a WAR file handle all of the site, and have the sitemap outside of the war?  There are a lot of links, so I have a single sitemapindex.xml file and multiple (140) sitemap.xml files.  The index file is in the root of the web app, and the sitemap files are in a folder (/sitemaps) from the root.</p>
  
  <p>What I am ideally looking for is someway of saying that the /sitemaps folder is a physical folder outside of the WAR so that a different team can handle the generation of the sitemaps.</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible?</p>