jar placement (clarification needed)

[Mike Haberman <mi...@ncsa.uiuc.edu>]

There was a thread a while back about where to place
application specific jar files.  I read the thread but
the solution has not worked.


I have a jar file (myApp.jar)

I have tomcat 3.2 running

I place myApp.jar in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib  it works!
   (but I don't want it to live there)

I place myApp.jar in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/classes
   (it does not work unjarred or jarred)

I place myApp.jar in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/lib
   (it does not work unjarred or jarred)


1.  What's up do I need to do something to server.xml or web.xml ?

2.  It is true that once this works, if I update the myApp.jar file
    I won't need to restart tomcat ?  (unlike if I do it the 1st way)


thanks to anyone who can help!!!


mike

Re: jar placement (clarification needed)

[Jim Rudnicki <jd...@pacbell.net>]

> When you tried this, had you created a context named myApp
> in the server.xml file?  It is that context that associates
> jar files in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/lib with the deployment
> descriptor in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/web.xml

While that might resolve the problem, it strikes me as wrong.  I was under
the impression that the intent is that a .war is dropped in webapps/ and the
engine takes care of the rest.  You can see the contexts (contexti?) being
automatically created at startup.  If you have to edit server.xml, that
implies priviledges people would not have on some hosting services.

Jim

Re: jar placement (clarification needed)

[William Brogden <wb...@bga.com>]

Mike Haberman wrote:
> 
> There was a thread a while back about where to place
> application specific jar files.  I read the thread but
> the solution has not worked.
> 
> I have a jar file (myApp.jar)
> 
> I have tomcat 3.2 running
> 
> I place myApp.jar in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib  it works!
>    (but I don't want it to live there)
> 
> I place myApp.jar in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/classes
>    (it does not work unjarred or jarred)
> 
> I place myApp.jar in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/lib
>    (it does not work unjarred or jarred)

When you tried this, had you created a context named myApp
in the server.xml file?  It is that context that associates
jar files in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/lib with the deployment
descriptor in webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/web.xml 

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