I am developing a jsp + servlet application, package to war, deploy to tomcat 8.
I know WEB-INF is the folder to store files which are not to be served, only processed at server side: like html or jsp fragments, etc. I need to store some xmls. Servlets would read those xmls when processing requests.
The question is:
should I store these xmls in the same WEB-INF folder? Or is there a special place for that? I don't want to do it very anti-pattern.