Hi all! I'm using Tomcat8. I'm not quite understand about the description of 'scanAllDirectories' attribute of the <JarScanner> component. The doc says if this attribute is set true, 'any directories found on the classpath will be checked to see if they are expanded JAR files. ... Tomcat determines if a directory is an expanded JAR file by looking for a META-INF sub-directory'. Does it mean that we could extract the content of a JAR file(including the META-INF dir) to a folder under /WEB-INF/lib or /WEB-INF/classes(with unpackWAR=true) of my web application, and Tomcat will load associated classes, which were originally in the JAR, from this folder? I have tried this, but it seems not to work. So what does 'expanded JAR' mean? And how could we make use of it?
Regards, Nan
