Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-02 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Remy Maucherat wrote: Remy, What I am trying to do is start a discussion of _what_ the behaviour should be, so it can be fixed. I already consider the current behaviour to be broken. I'm mixed on the subject. Craig implemented it that way, so I want to hear his opinion on the

Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-02 Thread Aaron Mulder
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Yes sure. I think the best would be not to unpack the WARs (it's a lot cleaner). +1, as long as we can keep performance reasonable. Well, memory's cheap. You can always just read the whole WAR in. Then you'll get great performance.

Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-02 Thread Remy Maucherat
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Yes sure. I think the best would be not to unpack the WARs (it's a lot cleaner). +1, as long as we can keep performance reasonable. Well, memory's cheap. You can always just read the whole WAR in. Performance should be good with WARs

Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-01 Thread Remy Maucherat
What is the expected behaviour of Tomcat 4 when starting/stopping in regards to unpacking war files. I noticed what to me seems like strange behaviour. The Host is configured in server.xml with unpackWARs="true". ls of webapps before starting tomcat, notice that some of the war files are

Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-01 Thread Remy Maucherat
I consider this a bug. Tomcat should not be removing contexts that have been expanded out into a directory in webapps. If unpackWARs="false", then nothing is expanded out into webapss, the war file is expanded out as needed into the work dir, correct? The JARs are indeed expanded as a

RE: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-01 Thread Mike Braden
If unpackWARs="false", then nothing is expanded out into webapss, the war file is expanded out as needed into the work dir, correct? The JARs are indeed expanded as a temporary fix for Jasper. There is hope that we can perhaps use a tweaked version of javac which would load classes from a

Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-01 Thread Glenn Nielsen
Remy, What I am trying to do is start a discussion of _what_ the behaviour should be, so it can be fixed. I already consider the current behaviour to be broken. For example deploying a war on starutp, then undeploying it on shutdown adds unnecessary overhead to the tomcat start/stop processing.

Re: Tomcat 4 unpacking of WAR files behavior

2001-03-01 Thread Remy Maucherat
If unpackWARs="false", then nothing is expanded out into webapss, the war file is expanded out as needed into the work dir, correct? The JARs are indeed expanded as a temporary fix for Jasper. There is hope that we can perhaps use a tweaked version of javac which would load classes from