Kenny, If you are running a 2.2 test build, putting your jars in james-server/apps/james/SAR-INF/lib of your server installation works perfectly.
Section "Deploying a Custom Mailet/Adding Your Mailet to the Classpath" in http://james.apache.org/custom_mailet_2_1.html is wrong: the right place to put your jar is in the SAR-INF/lib INSIDE THE JAMES.SAR FILE, managing it with winzip or similar. Before using the new mailet deployment facilities in 2.2 this was the only and safe way I found for deploying personal mailet jars, that I used for 3 months. What happens is that during the startup the james.sar (and I think any other *.sar file found in the james/apps directory) is unzipped into a newly created directory james-server/work/james-nnnnnnnnnnnnn, where nnnnnnnnnnnnn is everytime a different random(?) number; the previous one is deleted. Such directory, within a SAR-INF/lib substructure contains the jars and other stuff that will be used during runtime. Have a look at it. The point is that if you put something in an existing james/work/james-nnnnnnnnnnnnn/SAR-INF/lib directory and then restart james, it will simply disappear and a new james/work/james-mmmmmmmmmmmmm/SAR-INF/lib will reappear with the jars from james.sar. james-server/lib is ignored by the *james* code, it must instead contain jdbc drivers and other stuff that will be used at the *avalon/phoenix etc.* level or "statically" initialized (at least this is the place where I put my SqlServer jdbc drivers and some cryptography jars. But my personal mailet jars go inside the james.sar file as said above. Hope it helps, Vincenzo > -----Original Message----- > From: Kenny Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: mercoledi 29 ottobre 2003 23.48 > To: James Developers List > Subject: Unsure/Unable to Deploy Custom Mailets > > > Hi all, > > I'm still setting up my new server and I'm trying to deploy a custom > mailet to it, but running into problems. > > I following the directions here: > http://james.apache.org/custom_mailet_2_1.html > > I copied my jar into /usr/local/james-server/lib and executed: > cd /usr/local/james-server > cp ~/journalscape.jar lib/ > ./build.sh dist-lite > > However, journalscape.jar doesn't show up anywhere in the dist directory > nor in the james.sar. > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Kenny > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
