Michael
Any move to production in 1 file takes care of
1)All dependencies
2)Allows you to backup ALL jsps,jars,images (in the war) beforehand
3)The side effect of the simplicity of the idea is reliability
Just my 2 cents
Martin Gainty
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>From: Sloan Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Directories vs. WAR's >Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:52:14 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from hotmail.com ([65.54.237.16]) by mc2-s16.law16.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:01:20 -0700 >Received: from swjscmail2.java.sun.com ([192.18.99.108]) by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.4905); Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:51:03 -0700 >Received: from swjscmail1 (swjscmail1.Sun.COM [192.18.99.107])by swjscmail2.java.sun.com (Postfix) with ESMTPid 4301621F6E; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:51:43 -0600 (MDT) >Received: from JAVA.SUN.COM by JAVA.SUN.COM (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 2583796 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:49:55 -0600 >Received: from firefly.autozone.com (firefly.autozone.com [169.198.1.20]) by swjscmail1.java.sun.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB18A4865 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 17:49:54 -0600 (MDT) >Received: from aznotes1.autozone.com (aznotes1.autozone.com [169.198.30.12]) by firefly.autozone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/AZ) with ESMTP id g7QNrQun032752 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:53:26 -0500 >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 March 21, 2000 >X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on AZNOTES1/AUTOZONE(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 08/26/2002 06:52:14 PM >X-MailScanner: Found to be clean >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Aug 2002 23:51:03.0810 (UTC) FILETIME=[701CE620:01C24D5B] > >I'm looking for some ideas on how to handle our situation. > >Background: >WebSphere 3.5.? >VAJ 3.5 > >Currently we have about 90,000 files (JSP's, HTML's, and images) >under our docroot. This is a little over 4 GB (and growing rapidly). >In another directory, we have about 3 MB of JAR's. >We have multiple instances of WebSphere running on our production >server. >We use symbolic links from several instances to one instance for >the bulk of the JSP's and images(in order to save space). > >When we publish to production, we copy the new/changed files to >the production server(either to the docs directory or the >directory for our jars). > >We are looking at going to WSAD and WebSphere 4.? > >Does it make since (assuming it is possible) to keep this >directory structure and publish process in place, or should we >put everything together in a WAR file. > >The pro I see for the WAR file is that it keeps everything together >in one nice file that we can move to whatever server we want. > >On the down side, every time we publish (weekly), we have to create >the WAR file and move it to the production server. Even if it is >just a one word change to a JSP file, we'll have to copy the 4 GB >WAR file from one server to the production server. > >Also can we maintain the symbolic links from the other instances >to inside the WAR file in the main instance? > >TIA, >Michael Sloan >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to >which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged >material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or >taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or >entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received >this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any >computer. > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". >For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". >Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com
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