Currently using apache-tomcat-7.0.35. Not sure that matters as no behavior has
changed in prior releases.
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 8:56 AM, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/06/2015 12:42, Ray Holme wrote:
> I have been using tomcat for a while and have several applications. Some jar
> files are specific to an application and make sense to be in
> .../webapps/APPLICATION/WEB-INF/lib and some are used in multiple
> applications so they need to appear in each applications lib. One shared jar
> file is my own common code, but then there are many things that are pulled
> from the net (e.g. mail.jar). In addition I put one jar file in the top
> tomcate ../lib directory as it is used by everything for DB access
> (jaybird...jar in my case.
> Since I use Linux, ALL of these extra jar files are maintained somewhere else
> (same linux file system required) and I hard link them to the above named
> places so I don't need multiple copies and one update serves all (with a web
> restart, natch).
> So, here are my questions: 1) Is there any reason why the SQL library
> (jaybird above) needs to be in the .../lib (top tomcat directory) or could it
> be in the WEB-INF/lib directory too? If the latter is OK, then it becomes
> part of the WAR file when I distribute and thus saves an extra step when this
> jar updates. Also, by putting it (logically) there in the application lib(s),
> it evokes more security if I understand the purpose of doing this (see next
> question).
> 2) Could I also put my own common jar file in the top tomcat .../lib
> directory? I am confident that it does NOT have insecure code so logic says
> it could be there, but having it in the WAR file might be a better option
> anyway as I do add things to it. In other words, if I were confident in the
> source for say mail.jar and knew it was secure, it too could be in the top
> directory (with the caveat that it no longer is in the WAR file).
> Question 1 would be useful as it makes distributions more easy and totally
> effective if all can be in the WAR file. Question 2 is just for me to
> understand better how tomcat works - I don't think I want to move the
> application jars to the tomcat lib.
> Many thanks for improving my understanding.
>
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