Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-24 Thread Barry van Someren
This discussion was never really meant as a bug report or feature request, but it's always good to look at improving whats out there. Such a provider might be nice and I was thinking of something like that. Perhaps I can pick this up as my first GBean? On 10/24/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-24 Thread David Jencks
On Oct 23, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Barry van Someren wrote: David, My experience with persistance in webapps has been with using databases. I recently ran into a JSP based Wiki that uses flat files (most likely in the working directory) to persist data. Now I remember that back at my old compan

Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-24 Thread Barry van Someren
Hi, I never really thought of that actually. Makes sense that if you would use flat file persistance, that you'd write to the home directory as you are bound to have rights there and the App server won't touch it. However, I'd never do that (I learned to use a database for things such as persistan

Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-24 Thread Miguel A Paraz
On 10/24/05, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you should use a directory outside ${user.home} ... Sorry, I meant, a directory inside ${user.home}.

Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-24 Thread Miguel A Paraz
On 10/24/05, Barry van Someren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience with persistance in webapps has been with using databases. > I recently ran into a JSP based Wiki that uses flat files (most likely > in the working directory) to persist data. I think you should use a directory outside ${us

Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-23 Thread Barry van Someren
David, My experience with persistance in webapps has been with using databases. I recently ran into a JSP based Wiki that uses flat files (most likely in the working directory) to persist data. Now I remember that back at my old company we used Tomcat for a project and it would let you add files

Re: Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-23 Thread David Jencks
On Oct 23, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Barry van Someren wrote: Hi there, The deploy instructions show how to deploy WAR's only deals with packed WAR's. Can you also deploy exploded WAR's in Geronimo (just like you can do with Tomcat)? I think so. Note that any war or ear with a war inside will get

Deploying exploded WAR's

2005-10-23 Thread Barry van Someren
Hi there, The deploy instructions show how to deploy WAR's only deals with packed WAR's. Can you also deploy exploded WAR's in Geronimo (just like you can do with Tomcat)? And what about creating flat files? (writing in the deployed/work directory) I'm trying out some open source projects to see h