> > > The short answer is: you can't separate the components of a webapp out > into separate locations. > >
Thanks for the response P. Understood and agreed as to the function and purpose of .war file. The reasoning for the separation is that in our current environment we have users from 3 or so other departments accustomed to being able to drag html and jsp files up to our web server (good bad or otherwise). With a change to tomcat as our app server, I could provide that same sort of access where jsp and html docs are just moved into the docBase directory at will by multiple individuals, but I would never be able to undeploy that directory without fear of losing all the jsp and html files they may have tossed in there. I would have to resort to hand copying in class file/config and lib changes into the WEB-INF so as not to risk losing any content files on a redeployment. We rigged our current application server (Oracle OAS 10.1.3.4) to allow this separation of content from configuration/classes/lib but that is neither here nor there. Thanks for your input. Jason
