Not sure 1 or 2 applies to the general servlet population.
JARs are nice ways to package classes that have dependencies, or logically
work together to proved a set of services. I would suggest you NOT compress
these if you are using them in a servlet, since the decompression in most
JAVA engines seems to suck badly, although comparing that to downloading a
non-compressed jar .... In all the servlet implementations I've seen, none
downloaded jars from a remote resource.
I tend to like the packaging of utility classes in jars for my servlet
engine.
my 2 cents (canadian, so that doesn't even register in US funds *g*)
Thor HW
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From: Tammam Al-Hamwy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: Jar files
> Advantages:
> 1. You only need to sign one file if using security framework
> 2. For client, faster than downloading each class file separately
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> Cheers,
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> Tammam Al-Hamwy
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> Jaman Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/28/99 11:56:04 AM
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> Please respond to "A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's
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> Subject: Jar files
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> Sorry, if this is a newbie question, but are there advantages to
> placing packages in Jar files rather than just leaving them in .class
> files sorted by directories? Are there disadvantages?
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> Thanks, Jaman
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