FYI, you can also put it in common/lib or shared/lib (I'm not sure if there is any difference, I assume so, but I don't know what it is). This will allow all webapps running under that server instance to find and use the JAR. Be careful though, you can run into versioning issues doing that (I personally prefer each webapp have it's own copy of any JAR it needs, except for those that come with the app server itself).

--
Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
http://www.omnytex.com


Rhino wrote:
Thank you VERY much! It now seems to be working correctly.

Between a new version of Tomcat, a new version of Sysdeo, a new version and
the fact that I could never quite get FileUpload to work in the old versions
of any of these tools, I was getting very confused. I wish I had asked this
exact question a year and a half ago when I first started working with
FileUpload ;-)

Again, thanks Martin! I am really looking forward to getting this project
working now.

Rhino


----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [FileUpload] Very Basic Question




On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:38:57 -0500, Rhino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Could someone kindly tell me where I should be putting the
commons-fileupload-1.0-jar when I deploy my Tomcat servlet to Tomcat?

I've

searched high and low through mailing lists and FileUpload docs and I

can't

find any mention of this.

My servlet compiles fine but when I deploy it to Tomcat (5.0.28) Tomcat
can't find the jar so that it can do the uploading and I get this:

<snip/>

I think this is nature's way of telling me that I haven't got the

FileUpload

jar in the right place. Apparently, Tomcat can't use the copy of the jar
that is in server/lib; as I understand it, this directory is only for
uploads done by the server, not by the applications. I would have tried

it

in common/lib but I have specific instructions from Martin Cooper that

say

"keep the FileUpload jar within your own web app, and don't try to share

it

by putting it in common/lib".

So where DO I put the jar??? I suppose the answer should be obvious

since I

can't find any evidence of anyone else ever asking it but it's eluding

me.

The FileUpload jar file should go into WEB-INF/lib, inside your war
file. This is the same place that all of your other jar files should
go, and is the standard location for jar files in a web application.
See the Servlet spec for more information.

--
Martin Cooper



Do I just drop the jar in the webapps/[MyAppName] folder? Won't that

ensure

that I have to put it back there manually every time I redeploy the

servlet?

Should I put the jar in the WAR file itself?

Any guidance would be appreciated!

Rhino
---
rhino1 AT sympatico DOT ca
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to

make it

so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is

to

make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C.A.R.
Hoare

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