On 16/12/2014 18:00, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Nan, > > On 12/16/14 5:37 AM, Nan Ge wrote: >> 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 haven't tried, but I would guess that it would only work under > WEB-INF/lib and not WEB-INF/classes since WEB-INF/classes isn't > expected to ever contain JAR files (at least not ones that are > automatically added to the classpath, like .jar files in WEB-INF/lib are).
I see the logic behind the guess but it is wrong. This option won't work for either of those directories. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
