Followup: WAR deployment with JSP's

[Chris Williams <ch...@cisco.com>]

I keep seeing in these posts that any support classes should be jar'd up and
placed in the lib directory under WEB-INF.  Does the jsp engine also look
there??  I keep getting errors when processing my jsp saying it can't load
the class.  Should this setup work???
Thanks
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Towell" <jt...@cscexchange.cc.edu>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: WAR deployment


try this:

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial/doc/WebComponents3.html



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Willeke [mailto:jim@willeke.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:45 AM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: WAR deployment
>
>
> But where do you findout what should/could be in this file?
> If I look at the examples.war file, it appears to contain all
> that is in
> the:
>   \webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes
>
> Is this typical or redundent?
>
> My specific issue is I can not find where to place "common" lib files
> that can be found by the a servlet. Even if it is placed in the:
>        \webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes
> I continue to get an error that the class can not be found
> even though
> there is a jar file in this directory that contains the file
> AND the JVM
> has a classpath that includes the jar file.
> Any help or pointers to some docs as to howw this is all
> supposed to go
> together would be great!
> -jim
>
> Gaël Oberson wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anybody know where I can find information about the
> WAR files?? I
> > know that these files are used to deploy a WEB Application,
> where all
> > files .class and config files are packaged, but I don't
> have any idea
> > how to build it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can somebody help me??
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>

Re: Followup: WAR deployment with JSP's

[Sam Newman <sa...@stamplets.com>]

3rd party libs (e.g. xml parsers etc) should be placed in the WEB-INF/lib
directory. But this is valid jar files, not simple classes. If you have your
own classes, or even other peoples, unpacked and not in a jar form, put them
in WEB-INF/classes (remembering to mirror thier package in the directory
structure under classes).

So if I had a support class call com.mycomp.UserValidator.class, I would put
it in WEB-INF/classes/com/mycomp/. If I had a jar file I use called
validator.jar, it would be in WEB-INF/lib

Hope this helps,

sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Williams" <ch...@cisco.com>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:52 PM
Subject: Followup: WAR deployment with JSP's


> I keep seeing in these posts that any support classes should be jar'd up
and
> placed in the lib directory under WEB-INF.  Does the jsp engine also look
> there??  I keep getting errors when processing my jsp saying it can't load
> the class.  Should this setup work???
> Thanks
> Chris