Section 9.4 of the Servlet 2.2 spec (page 44) states that
WEB-INF/lib/*.jar is the location for Java Archives and does not mention any
other resources. Since .zip is not mentioned, if you used them in the lib
folder then you could have a non-compliant webapp, which would make Tomcat a
non-compliant web server, which would violate the whole purpose of a
"Reference" implementation.
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Carlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:37 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Config: zip-files (dev pls look!)
>
>
> Renaming the zip to jar did the trick for me.
>
> If any developer are looking perphaps they can explain why
> tomcat doesn't support .zip-files (of academic interest).
>
> Regards
> Roland
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kershaw, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:32 PM
> Subject: RE: Config: zip-files
>
>
> > On my windows NT installation I had to resort to hardcoding
> the zip file
> > into the classpath. This was the only way it worked. There
> is probably a
> > correct way to do it. For example:
> >
> > Location
> > C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\lib\classes12.zip
> >
> > and
> >
> > CLASSPATH = ...;C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\lib\classes12.zip
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ADAM FOWLER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:06 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Config: zip-files
> >
> >
> > JAVA_HOME/jre/lib
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> > At 13:51 14/06/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >I got a zip-library containing jdbc drivers. Where do I
> put this so it is
> > accesseble to the whole server?
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance
> > >Roland Carlsson
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > ----
> > Adam Fowler
> > Second year Computer Science undergraduate
> > University of Wales, Aberystwyth
> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > web: http://gucciboy.dyndns.org/aff9
> > "Every new beginning comes from some
> > other beginning's end"
> > ----
> >
>
