The main consideration is whether or not you want all your applications to run on the same versions of these components. By putting them in commons/lib you are assuming all applications (running in this instance of Tomcat) will use the same component versions. I have on many occasions had applications running on different versions of the commons components.
For example, you may have one application (App A) that is built on the latest stable release of Collections. In addition, you have another application (App B) that is using some stuff from the latest nightly build. You may not want to expose App A to potential bugs in the nightly build so in this case you would deploy the desired Collections jar file along with each application rather than install them in commons/lib. Hope this helps. -- Norm Deane MIS Consultant Vanderbilt University (615) 322-7855 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 9:53 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Commons Versions bundled with Struts 1.1 On a related subject, what criteria does one use to decide whether to put these in tomcat's commons/lib directory, or in the webapp's own lib directory when deploying? On 09/02/2003 03:44 PM Kris Schneider wrote: > http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/userGuide/release-notes-1.1.html: > > Commons BeanUtils 1.6.1 > Commons Collections 2.1 > Commons Digester 1.5 > Commons FileUpload 1.0 > Commons Lang 1.0.1 > Commons Logging 1.0.3 > Commons Validator 1.0.2 > > Quoting Andrew Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>Ive been trying to find out the versions of the commons libraries >>bundled with Struts 1.1 Final, but haven't found where its >>definitively documented (links welcome please!) >> >>I went through the various manifest files and got this, but Im not >>sure how up to date the manifests are: >> >>struts 1.1 (Yeh. Ok. Im pretty confident about this one... ;->) >>commons-beanutils 1.6 commons-collections 2.1 >>commons-digester 1.5 >>commons-fileupload 1.0 >>commons-lang 1.0 >>commons-logging 1.0.3 >>commons-validator 1.0.2 >> >>Is this correct? > > -- struts 1.1 + tomcat 4.1.27 + java 1.4.2 Linux 2.4.20 RH9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
