On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:22, Paul Hammant wrote:
> Perhaps the ideal web server could take a WAR file (with plenty of
> static content) and, at load time, hand the static content to some
> sister server that is more tuned to serving static content.  

Actually I remember hearing someone mutter that tomcat was going to try to do 
that with one of the Apache connectors (warp?) or something. Not sure if it 
does that right now though.

> I stand by
> my definition, despite performance concerns, that a WAR's root is for
> content and WEB-INF is a convenient place to hide conf, libs & classes.

And conversely a SAR's root is for content (or application data) and SAR-INF 
is a convenient place to hide conf, libs & classes ???

> Of course I understand that servers come
> with conf and a miriad of jars.  My point was simply that stuffing
> everything into SAR-INF looks daft and more like an imitation of WAR
> files.  

It is an imitation but not everything will be stuffed into SAR-INF. In fact 
there is quite a lot of stuff that won't be in a SAR-INF. It is just that up 
until now we have not differentiated between stuff that is extracted and 
stuff that is not. Ideally large chunks of james .sar will be extracted while 
the standard *.bar, *.jar does not need to be extracted.

> However, I'm not a do-er in this area of Phoenix, so feel free
> to ignore my comments.

Technically I can't until you lift your -1 ;) Practically I can't as I have 
no time atm ;)

-- 
Cheers,

Pete

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