At 01:06 20/9/00 +0200, you wrote: > CM> but I am curous as to why the servlet spec uses WEB-INF for wars? > >Especially since servlet containers must hide META-INF directories if >they exist as well. > >I guess they wanted to physically separate the information about the >JAR itself (everything with regard to signing the JAR for example) >from the information about the web application contained.
It's more because WARs are only meant as deployment packages. ie you drop a war into right place and it is installed. It can be installed to any place (tomcat unzips it in same directory) and during this installation the WEB-INF is not unpacked as it is specific to jar and not the "package" Cheers, Pete *------------------------------------------------------* | "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want | | to test a man's character, give him power." | | -Abraham Lincoln | *------------------------------------------------------*
