On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Johan Compagner wrote:
Hi,
When i include my jsp inside a war file i really don't know where those files are
unpacked (if they are unpacked)
But if i want my jsp's to be updateable from the internet (uploading)
where must i put my jsp's?
Can i for example put my jsp's inside a DB and then have some common class
that will supply a jsp pages for a Container (like tomcat but others must also be
possible)
I don't think this is caputered in an interface of jsp/servlet isn't it?
This is left to the container builder?
How do you guy's do it?
Don't use a war file?
But a normal directory so that i know where everything is and i know where to save
the uploaded jsp's?
any idee's?
johan
My personal approach is to consider application deployment an all or
nothing activity. On my development environment, my build script creates
either a WAR file (for portability) or an unpacked directory (if I know
that I'm going to run on a container like Tomcat that accepts them). To
deploy, I then replace the entire application using whatever technique is
apropriate for the container that I'm running.
I would never personally deploy an app where the JSP pages would be
updated individually remotely. Besides the security risks, there are two
other significant problems:
* It is very easy to make a running production system stop running because
of inadvertent mistakes in the pages being changed.
* Changes made to the live version of the application are never captured
into the source code control system, so you can't reliably reproduce
a particular release of the app.
I'm fond of using Ant and CVS for developing my apps, but other tools also
work. If you do use Ant, take a look at the top-level build.xml file in
the source distribution for Struts -- you will see a
deploy.catalia target that deploys the most recent versions of all the
Struts example apps onto a running install of Tomcat 4.0 (using the
catalina.home property to identify the directory where Tomcat is
running). I never make any changes to the running pages - only to the
pages in the source directory (followed by running ant
deploy.catalina again) so that the changes I'm making are never lost.
Craig
