Can I place resources in the apache www folder?

I'm deploying my webapp on a remote server using apache tomcat and was wondering if I would place resources used for styling the html document in a folder within the www folder or a static resource folder within the jar file. As of now I have everything (including my html doc) inside of the jar file and it works fine. However, it's running on a different port. I know I could just change the port in the server.xml, but I figured using the www folder is convention (or is that just for war files)?