Yes, of course including the jdbc jar in WEB-INF/lib is gonna make the .war
platform specific in so far as the database is concerned. What other option
do you have, though? ... do you plan to distribute EVERY jdbc type 4 driver
with your application? Wouldn't it be easier on you and maybe your clients
to include just one 'example' jdbc driver in the .war and make an install
note to replace it with the client's jdbc driver of choice along with
whatever config info you include. They're gonna have to config the driver
anyway, what's an extra drag and drop.
- Richard
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 02:22 pm, you wrote:
> Frankly, I'm not quite sure I understand what your problem is. I've used
> JDBC drivers from Oracle, Postgres, Sun, and (in a roundabout way) Versant,
> and I'm yet to see anyone release a platform-specific JDBC jar.
>
> Anyway, all I do is throw the .jar into the WEB-INF/lib path of the app
> that uses it, and it always works for me.
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
> - r
>
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:37:44 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >>Use "%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib" if you want a JAR
> > >>file visible to both applications *and* Catalina internal classes
> > >> (which
> > >>
> > >>is rarely necessary).
> >
> > What about servlets that load at startup? Which directory does Catalina
> > search? For servlets that load at startup, will Catalina find servlet
> > classes in war files in the webapps folder? This didn't work for me.
> >
> >
> > ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> > Subject: Re: war files. (tomcat 4.0 beta 7)
> > Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: 8/14/2001 9:26 AM
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
> > > James, Stuart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I have packaged my web application in a .war file and deployed it
>
> using
>
> > > > tomcat 4.0 beta 7.
> > > >
> > > > perfect.
> > > >
> > > > The only way I could get it to work was to copy my database jar files
> >
> > into > > web-inf\lib, this would make my war file platform dependent as
> > most database > > vendors ship different jars for each operating system.
> >
> > > > I tried them in the %CATALINA_HOME%\lib but that did not help.
> > > >
> > > > suggestions / recommendations.
> > >
> > > I _believe_... It's not %CATALINA_HOME%\lib, but
> >
> > %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib >
> >
> > No, "%CATALINA_HOME%\lib" is the right place for JARs that should only be
> > seen by applications. Use "%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib" if you want a JAR
> > file visible to both applications *and* Catalina internal classes (which
> > is rarely necessary).
> >
> > Without knowing what the failure symptoms are when you put the JDBC
> > driver files into "%CATALINA_HOME%\lib", it's a little hard to debug
> > "that
> >
> > did not help".
> >
> > > But I might be wrong...
> > >
> > > Pier
> >
> > Craig
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