As far as I am aware, Tomcat has *never* recognised
".zip" files in the lib directory, only .jars.
Perhaps in the past, you happened to have the zip in
a classpath...
Anyway, the fix is just to rename any .zip to .jar,
they are (currently) exactly the same internal format.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Hamersma [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 5:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: classes in zip files
>
> Hi!,
>
> this is probably a stupid question but i have to ask it anyway:
> i have some classes in a zip file (classes111.zip from oracle for the jdbc
> thin driver),
> and somehow Tomcat 3.2.1 does not seem to pick it up in the lib directory,
> while Tomcat 3.2 had no problems.
>
> I'm running on NT4.0 as well as Windows ME, with Apache 1.3.12 and 1.3.14
> respectively.
>
> BTW jar files are no problem.
>
> Thanx in advance,
>
> Ron (definitely newbie)
>
>
