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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Johan Peeters <jo...@alcatel.be> on 2000/08/08 06:35:35 UTC
zip files
Hi,
A source of small nuisance in this otherwise fine product: some vendors
supply their class files in other (legal) formats than jar - Oracle, for
example, supplies .zip files. At present .zip files do not appear to be
put in the classpath if they are in the web-inf/lib directory.
While on the subject of Oracle files in the lib directory, Jason Rumney
mentioned in a previous post that there he had some doubts as to whether
they could go in there. I have lightly tested this (after renaming the
.zip file to .jar :-), and it appears to work. It remains to be seen
whether it continues to do so when used in anger - it is my
understanding that Oracle supplies implementations of interfaces in
these zip files. So that should be OK. Anyone any views on this?
Best Wishes,
Yo
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Johan Peeters mailto:johan.peeters@alcatel.be
Software Architect - Net Commerce
Alcatel - Gen. De Wittelaan 11 A bus 1 - 2800 Mechelen - Belgium
Phone: +32 15 29 3427 Fax: +32 3 240 4800
Re: zip files
Posted by Jason Pell <Ja...@dssonline.com.au>.
I extracted the classes111_01.zip file and put it into a jar so that it
would work correctly.
It is a terrible pain, zip is supported by java in java.util.zip, so why not
support it in
tomcat as well.
Johan Peeters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A source of small nuisance in this otherwise fine product: some vendors
> supply their class files in other (legal) formats than jar - Oracle, for
> example, supplies .zip files. At present .zip files do not appear to be
> put in the classpath if they are in the web-inf/lib directory.
>
> While on the subject of Oracle files in the lib directory, Jason Rumney
> mentioned in a previous post that there he had some doubts as to whether
> they could go in there. I have lightly tested this (after renaming the
> .zip file to .jar :-), and it appears to work. It remains to be seen
> whether it continues to do so when used in anger - it is my
> understanding that Oracle supplies implementations of interfaces in
> these zip files. So that should be OK. Anyone any views on this?
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Yo
>
> --
> Johan Peeters mailto:johan.peeters@alcatel.be
> Software Architect - Net Commerce
> Alcatel - Gen. De Wittelaan 11 A bus 1 - 2800 Mechelen - Belgium
> Phone: +32 15 29 3427 Fax: +32 3 240 4800
--
Jason Pell
Senior Analyst/Programmer
Deakin Software Services Pty Ltd
12 Gheringhap St, Geelong Victoria 3220 Australia
Phone: 03 5227 8858 International: +61 3 5227 8858
Fax: 03 5227 8907 International: +61 3 5227 8907
E-mail Jason.Pell@dssonline.com.au
http://www.dssonline.com.au
Customer Support Hotline: 1800 620 497
"Callista - the brightest solution in university management"
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Re: zip files
Posted by "Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>.
Johan Peeters wrote:
> How do you modify the filename filter?
>
> Yo
>
> Jason Pell wrote:
>
> > Thinking about it again, I would imagine that all that would be required is
> > the modification of the
> > filename filter for the WEB-INF\lib directory to include jar files. But I
> > wonder whether this is
> > supported by the Servlets 2.2 standard?
> >
>
You can find out for yourself by downloading the spec -- it's not all that hard
to read or understand.
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
For the record, the Servlet 2.2 specification supports *jar* files in WEB-INF/lib
and unpacked classes in WEB-INF/classes only.
> > Anyone know?
> >
Craig McClanahan
Re: zip files
Posted by Johan Peeters <jo...@alcatel.be>.
How do you modify the filename filter?
Yo
Jason Pell wrote:
> Thinking about it again, I would imagine that all that would be required is
> the modification of the
> filename filter for the WEB-INF\lib directory to include jar files. But I
> wonder whether this is
> supported by the Servlets 2.2 standard?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Johan Peeters wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > A source of small nuisance in this otherwise fine product: some vendors
> > supply their class files in other (legal) formats than jar - Oracle, for
> > example, supplies .zip files. At present .zip files do not appear to be
> > put in the classpath if they are in the web-inf/lib directory.
> >
> > While on the subject of Oracle files in the lib directory, Jason Rumney
> > mentioned in a previous post that there he had some doubts as to whether
> > they could go in there. I have lightly tested this (after renaming the
> > .zip file to .jar :-), and it appears to work. It remains to be seen
> > whether it continues to do so when used in anger - it is my
> > understanding that Oracle supplies implementations of interfaces in
> > these zip files. So that should be OK. Anyone any views on this?
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > Yo
> >
> > --
> > Johan Peeters mailto:johan.peeters@alcatel.be
> > Software Architect - Net Commerce
> > Alcatel - Gen. De Wittelaan 11 A bus 1 - 2800 Mechelen - Belgium
> > Phone: +32 15 29 3427 Fax: +32 3 240 4800
>
> --
> Jason Pell
> Senior Analyst/Programmer
> Deakin Software Services Pty Ltd
> 12 Gheringhap St, Geelong Victoria 3220 Australia
> Phone: 03 5227 8858 International: +61 3 5227 8858
> Fax: 03 5227 8907 International: +61 3 5227 8907
> E-mail Jason.Pell@dssonline.com.au
> http://www.dssonline.com.au
> Customer Support Hotline: 1800 620 497
>
> "Callista - the brightest solution in university management"
>
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Johan Peeters mailto:johan.peeters@alcatel.be
Software Architect - Net Commerce
Alcatel - Gen. De Wittelaan 11 A bus 1 - 2800 Mechelen - Belgium
Phone: +32 15 29 3427 Fax: +32 3 240 4800
Re: zip files
Posted by Jason Pell <Ja...@dssonline.com.au>.
Thinking about it again, I would imagine that all that would be required is
the modification of the
filename filter for the WEB-INF\lib directory to include jar files. But I
wonder whether this is
supported by the Servlets 2.2 standard?
Anyone know?
Johan Peeters wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A source of small nuisance in this otherwise fine product: some vendors
> supply their class files in other (legal) formats than jar - Oracle, for
> example, supplies .zip files. At present .zip files do not appear to be
> put in the classpath if they are in the web-inf/lib directory.
>
> While on the subject of Oracle files in the lib directory, Jason Rumney
> mentioned in a previous post that there he had some doubts as to whether
> they could go in there. I have lightly tested this (after renaming the
> .zip file to .jar :-), and it appears to work. It remains to be seen
> whether it continues to do so when used in anger - it is my
> understanding that Oracle supplies implementations of interfaces in
> these zip files. So that should be OK. Anyone any views on this?
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Yo
>
> --
> Johan Peeters mailto:johan.peeters@alcatel.be
> Software Architect - Net Commerce
> Alcatel - Gen. De Wittelaan 11 A bus 1 - 2800 Mechelen - Belgium
> Phone: +32 15 29 3427 Fax: +32 3 240 4800
--
Jason Pell
Senior Analyst/Programmer
Deakin Software Services Pty Ltd
12 Gheringhap St, Geelong Victoria 3220 Australia
Phone: 03 5227 8858 International: +61 3 5227 8858
Fax: 03 5227 8907 International: +61 3 5227 8907
E-mail Jason.Pell@dssonline.com.au
http://www.dssonline.com.au
Customer Support Hotline: 1800 620 497
"Callista - the brightest solution in university management"
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