Martin Cooper is a *developer* of Commons FileUpload so if he tells me NOT to put the Commons FileUpload jar in common/lib - which he did - and says that I should put it in the war file of the application, that is exactly what I'm going to do ;-)
It works fine to do it Martin's way and I've had a lot of grief from trying to put it in common/lib or shared/lib. Rhino ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank W. Zammetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Martin Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [FileUpload] Very Basic Question > 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 > >>> > >>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
