Hi All,

Many moons ago, I decided to leverage some in-house Java expertise and
deploy some servlets and JSPs under CF. In hindsight, this was a bad
decision for many reasons, but that is another story.

The upshot is this: I'm maintaining some of the codebase, and am seeing some
very perplexing behavior.

The original Java files were deployed as a JAR in the WEB-INF/lib directory.
Opening the JAR up, however, shows that there is no manifest and it's only
the class files bundled together into an archive with a JAR extension. I am
under the impression that JAR files are supposed to have manifests.

I can make changes to the code in Eclipse and export as a JAR. However, it
does include a manifest; however, while the CF service starts, I get the
following error:

Either the Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not have
a mapping to process this request.

If I just grab the classes and drop them into the WEB-INF/classes directory,
everything works.

So, here are my questions:

What exactly is this existing JAR file that works with no manifest file?
Why doesn't a regular JAR file made by Eclipse cause CF to crash, but the
unarchived classes work fine?

I'm hoping this is a n00b question that we can all laugh about.

Thanks!
Chris

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