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Today our SEARCH and any file reading occurs exclusively on the client side. As part of #2476 we are implementing support that allows icons and images to be loaded from the application jar. The idea is that the jar is checked first, while the code is still processing on the server side. If found, the resources are loaded and sent down to the client for use in the UI. If not found, then the server calls the client as usual and tries to search and load on the client side as normal. A key point is to minimize trips to the client.

This task is to make this processing more generic and allow other read-only resources to be loaded from the application jar using a similar technique. This will require our SEARCH function replacement to be modified to search on the server side. And the file processing would need to be modified to operate on the server.