On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, David Morsberger wrote: > I had the same problem and converting the .zip to a .jar worked. I reviewed > the documentation and I could not find any mention of zip files. Does the > absence of info on zip files imply they are not supported? > > I think the Tomcat 3.3 and 4.0 documentation should be updated to explicitly > state that zip files and not supported by the servlet spec and therefore > must be converted to jar files and stored in the /lib directory. >
The thing is much simpler than that... When Tomcat starts via one of the scripts, it looks into certain directories for the JAR files and adds them to the CLASSPATH. It looks for JAR files... It does not look for the ZIP files... If you just rename the ZIP file to a JAR file, it will be found... Jan Jan K. Labanowski | phone: 614-292-9279, FAX: 614-292-7168 Ohio Supercomputer Center | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1224 Kinnear Rd, | http://www.ccl.net/chemistry.html Columbus, OH 43212-1163 | http://www.osc.edu/ -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
