Most app servers I believe follow the pattern Tomcat does, which is that there is a common folder that you can put JARs in that will be loaded as needed and are accessible to all webapps. Then there is WEB-INF/lib which is specific to a given webapp. In addition to both of those, anything on the system classpath is accessible as well.
The point though is that if you put that folder under lib and do NOT added it to your classpath, will it still work? Even if it does, is JDeveloepr doing anything for you in the background to make it work?
Frank
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Well I have done that. I have created a directory under lib and included struts.jar in it. This is running fine in JDeveloper when I added the path to the classpath.
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I'm pretty sure the answer is no. I just took all the JARs for a test app I had installed and moved them from WEB-INF/lib to WEB-INF/lib/stuff, and the app no longer works. This is in Tomcat, so possibly it would work with another app server, but I tend to doubt it.
One suggestion that I can make, a habit I've gotten into, is name your JARs liberally, since their names don't matter. I usually name the JARs as descriptively as possible (for example, "jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.1.0.jar" might be one) and include their version, so it's fairly easy to tradk down
what's what and at a glance tell what versions I'm running. Probably not the ideal answer, but maybe it'll clean up the mess just a little.
Frank
>From: Riyad Kalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Semi-OT: Organizing WEB-INF/lib dir... >Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:58:36 -0700 > >Quick question for the people more versed in web apps than me, can you >organized your libs in your WEB-INF/lib dir into separate sub dirs? I ask
>because my project is using Struts and Hibernate right now, and there is a >such a mish-mash of JARs forming in my WEB-INF/lib dir, that its hard for
>me to upgrade the right jars when a new release comes out. I'd like to have >something like: > >WEB-INF/lib/struts >WEB-INF/lib/hibernate > >or something to that extent. Can I do this? > >TIA > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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