----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:11 PM Subject: RE: WEB-INF/classes, WEB-INF/lib
> > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Scott Purcell wrote: > > > It works on my tomcat on NT. We use a lot of jars, but it it someties > > hard to uncompress and compress the jars with changes, so I just put the > > updated class in the classes dir and all works out well. When we go to > > production, I just jar them all back. > > Containers that follow the servlet spec's requirements will load classes > from "/WEB-INF/classes" before they look at the JAR files in > "/WEB-INF/lib". [Section 9.5, last sentence before 9.5.1 starts]. Do they do this on a class level, or on a package level. So, from what I see hear, "patching" a WEB-INF/lib JAR file with a overriding class in the WEB-INF/classes directory will work as anticipated? I never know how much caching of lookup Java is allowed to do with class lookups, or whether it does any at all (though I do assume it caches the directories/JARs when first visited, and does not look at those again, but perhaps that's a bad assumption). Regards, Will Hartung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
