tomcat can almost run war files in un-expanded mode by
leveraging a piece of code that models the jdk1.2.x
JarURLConnection class.
hope this helps,
- james
Gael Stevens wrote:
> That's an interesting thought, having the .zip serve double duty. Is it
> possible
> currently for that to work? Specifically, I know a class can be located at
> runtime from inside a .jar, but can it be located from a .jar which is in a
> .jar?
> If not currently, then does that imply a change to the class loader?
>
> I am wondering about this as I have been looking at the sevlet 2.2 web
> descriptor
> which contains WEB-INF/lib/<something>.jar and it might be nice to get
> around expanding the .war to allow runtime access to the contained .jar files.
> Maybe it's a wild thought...(and certainly in a area in which I am not expert
> :-)
>
> Jason Hunter wrote:
>
> > Tom John wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded the above package and set the class path to it.( ie
> > > classpath=c:\servletprogramming\cos.zip)
> >
> > That isn't working because cos.zip contains many things including
> > cos.jar, which is the actual archive you need in your classpath.
> > (Though now I'm thinking, why not have the zip serve double duty?)
> >
> > > What's wrong, then I unzip the above package and put it in the
> > > samedirectory
> > > with the Mailservlet.java
> > > file But still it gives the same Error.
> >
> > You'll need to add cos.jar explicitly to your server's classpath.
> >
> > -jh-
> >
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