Gael Stevens wrote:
>
> That's an interesting thought, having the .zip serve double duty.
> Is it possible currently for that to work?
Yes, but only if the class files are found directly in the zip, not
within a jar within the zip.
> 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.
We already have that working. There's a special class loader used that
knows how to look for lib/*.jar files within a .war file. The
primordial class loader doesn't have that ability.
-jh-
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