At the moment the file globs we support in the loader definitions in catalina.properties are hard coded to DIRECTORY/*.jar.
Sometimes it would be helpful to allow a bit more flexible globs, like e.g. log4j-1.2.*.jar or similar. Would there be any interest if I would investigate whether we can use e.g. the DirectoryScanner from ant to support more general globs? Since we want to define the loader path, we only want to end up with directories and jar files. So one idea would be to filter the result of the DirectoryScanner to only include dirs and jars that match. If we find that more secure, we could also restrict to jars only, because I think that's the most probable use case for globs and picking up any dirs e.g. when using a recursive pattern might not be what the user expected. The result should be compatible to what the users got when using the strict *.jar pattern. Since we scan the directories only on startup and the ant code is mature, I don't expect any problematic performance impact. I don't have a patch yet, but wanted to check for general feedback before investigating more deeply. Regards, Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
