On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, James, Stuart wrote:
> so what is the best option....
>
> where should you place database jar's, ibm queue jar's etc..., surely
> you would not copy them into your applications web-inf area?
> additionaly I would not want them in the tomcat classpath?
>
> what is the prefered solution ?
>
> I need to consider that more than the web server mayuse the jar files
> so I do not want to copy them into the web server area, additionaly I
> don't like the idea of changing the supplied tomcat.sh or the global
> CLASSPATH environment.
>
> Can you not add .jars to the application configuration ?
>
What do do depends on the visibility your JAR needs:
* To make a JAR file available to a single web app only, put it in the
/WEB-INF/lib directory of that webapp.
* To make a JAR file available to all web apps, put it in the
$TOMCAT_HOME/lib directory. These JAR files automatically get added to
the CLASSPATH (for 3.2) or placed in a parent classloader (4.0), so that
they are visible to all of your apps.
You never have to mess with CLASSPATH.
Craig
