On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Mitesh Mehta wrote:
> I am trying to figure out the CVS directory structure for a large
> multi-component web application.
>
> I know that the Servlet/JSP specs prescribe a certain directory structure
> that is used to build war files. I am interested in knowing if any of you
> have added to that structure or have any advise or pointers based on your
> own experience.
>
The Struts source distribution demonstrates my favorite way to organize
things in my source CVS repository:
build.xml Ant build script that creates a build directory
that matches the servlet spec requirements for a
web app, by:
(a) creating the build directory
(b) copying all the static files from "web/"
(c) creating a WEB-INF/classes directory under
the build directory
(d) compiles the Java sources in "src/" with a
destination of WEB-INF/classes
(e) creating a WEB-INF/lib directory
(f) copying all the Struts TLDs to WEB-INF, and
struts.jar to WEB-INF/lib.
src/ Contains Java sources (in suitable subdirectories
to reflect the package hierarchy)
web/ JSP and HTML source files that make up the web
portion of the application, including the WEB-INF
directory and its associated web.xml and
struts-config.xml files.
There is advice along similar lines in the "Application Developer's
Guide" document that ships with Tomcat.
> Thanks,
>
> Mitesh Mehta
> S1 Corp (http://www.s1.com)
>
Craig McClanahan
