Wolfgang Baer wrote:
if you need stuff in your webapps you
should put it in or link it from the webapps libs/classes directory to
get it picked up. This is also some kind of security problem as
common/lib is trusted.
First of all, it is both common and recommended practise to _not_
include the database driver with the application, but instead aquire
connections from a container provided DataSource instead. If you're
going to use Tomcat's JDBC realms, you will not even have an alternative
than putting the database driver (or a symlink) into common/lib.
You would have a dangling symlink if libmysql-java is not installed
or removed after some time.
I understand your point. Then what about a separate package just for the
symlink? The package could depend on both tomcat(5|4) and libmysql-java,
so it would disappear if either the database driver or tomcat is
uninstalled.
Another point is where would you draw the line ? If linking libmysql-java
why not also jdbc for postgresql, sapdb, hsqldb ...
Indeed, there should be solutions for each major database, at least for
all of the "official Debian supported" DBs. Maybe one package for each
supported db?
you can add almost
every
library to this list.
Indeed, there are more cases like this. It is also common practise to
get JavaMail Sessions from a DataSource. I know JavaMail is not and will
probably never be packaged by Debian, but there is an os implementation
of JavaMail which fills the gap.
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