Perhaps the distribution should include a  .ignore in webapp\static as creating one can be a pain under windows [1]
/Andy

[1] http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToCreateAFileWithADotPrefixInWindowsExplorer.aspx

On 8 April 2016 at 13:19, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Lars,

> It seems that BaseX is scanning the webapp directory including static for
> each request. Is that right? And is it possible to turn it off ?

Caching can be turned off by setting CACHERESTXQ to true. Moreover, a
sub-directory will not be parsed for RESTXQ files if it contains a
file named .ignore (see [1] for more details).

Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ#Preliminaries