I've been thinking about this one too... Is it legal (possible, usable) to put the struts.jar file in a shared location (but NOT in your classpath), and in every web app, have a symlink that points to the jar file, instead of the _actual_ jar?
- M@ On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Mikael Eriksson wrote: > > The long answer (or several long answers, at least one good written by Craig) > can be found by searching the archives of this list. > > The short answer is that it is a classloader issue. > > The classes in struts.jar instantiates your action classes and formbean > classes. > Those classes _really_ _really_ should be packaged with the webapp and > stored below the WEB-INF/classes dir (or inside a jar in WEB-INF/lib if you > really want to jar them). > If struts.jar is in WEB-INF/lib it will find your classes and everything will > be good :-). > If struts.jar is somewhere else in the classpath, the classes inside your > webapp > will not be found by the struts.jar classes and you will see strange errors > when > trying to run things. > > Regards > Mikael > > > > > At 11:14 2002-03-12 -0600, you wrote: > >I want to start out by saying that I have read the fine manual and realise > >that the struts FAQ says that the struts.jar "must not" be placed on the > >application server's CLASSPATH. > > > >My question to this list is why is this the case? I have a build manager > >who very much wants only a single instance of any jar file to exist on a > >server and they are asking why I am talking about putting multiples of the > >same file on their machine? > > > >Simon > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com > >Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
