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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2001/10/25 18:58:19 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4409] - zip files arn't picked up in WEBAPP/WEB-INF/lib

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zip files arn't picked up in WEBAPP/WEB-INF/lib

remm@apache.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX



------- Additional Comments From remm@apache.org  2001-10-25 09:58 -------
The spec mandates the use of JAR files. Allowing to use zip files will make 
your application not portable, so we won't support it.
Of course, since this is OSS, you can add that support if you really want to 
(the JAR deployment happens in the org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader 
class).