unknown jar file in Tomcat, redux

["Mark J. Miller" <mj...@svsu.edu>]

I currently have Tomcat 4.1 running on a Win2k box. I'm installing an 
additional webapp to my existing Tomcat.

When I downloaded the webapp and it's files, it expanded to include 
version 4.0.2 of Tomcat. Well, I thought that's not a problem, I'll 
just move the appropriate files to my current Tomcat webapps folder 
and modify it's install.bat file to point to the correct folders. 
But, in the jakarta/server/lib folder are two additional files called 
tools.1.3.1.jar and tools.1.4.1.jar. The install.bat file for this 
webapp creates a global variable pointing to the tools.1.4.1.jar file.

The Tomacat 4.1 server/lib folder doesn't contain either of these jar files.

A search of the Tomcat user archive doesn't find either file. A 
search of the knowledge base for the software doesn't come up with 
anything either. A search on google turned up a download from the 
apache.gnusoft.net java repository of avalon-meta- tools -1.3 .1.jar. 
A search on google for tools.1.4.1.jar turned up a reference to 
jdk-tools-1.4.1.jar on sourceforge.net. But that neither helped me 
figure out what I should do.


Yoav Shapira felt that the webapp distributor might be " trying to 
get around tomcat's JDK requirement by including the JDK's tools.jar 
file with his/her webapp distribution.  If my guess is right, the 
1.3.1 and 1.4.1 version numbers correspond to JDK version numbers." 
(At the time I first posted this question, I didn't know what version 
of Tomcat had been included with the webapp)

But I'm wondering if the tools.1.3.1.jar and tools.1.4.1.jar files 
were included with the 4.0.2 install of Tomcat? Anyone know? As far 
as I can tell, it's not available for download anymore for me to 
check.

I'm hesitant to just ignore the files, but I don't know if copying 
them to my Tomcat 4.1 lib folder will screw up my current 
installation.

Yoav, if you already knew that the files weren't part of the 4.0.2 
install, my apologies for not taking your word.
-- 
Mark :-)
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Saginaw Valley State University USA
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