"Spoonauer, Michael" wrote: > > Section SRV.9.7.1 of the Servlet 2.3 API specification > appear to make Web containers responsible for reading > a WAR file's MANIFEST.MF >
It's optional. "Web containers are recommended to have a mechanism", not "required". > Is there a more standard way by which to share JAR files > amongst multiple Web applications > No, each servlet container does is differently. For example, Tomcat 4 does it like this: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html Yes, this does make it hard to deploy complex web applications to multiple containers. -- Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
