Sure, anybody know if .zip's are treated the same way as .jars?
I had to rejar a .zip today to get things to work as I expected.
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, James Cribb wrote:
> | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: jars in WEB-INF/lib
> |
> |
> | For JASPER to compile JSPs is it enough to simply have my
> | jars in the lib directory. These are implicitly known to the
> | classloader right?
> |
> | ie. I do not have to have these jars in my CLASSPATH right?
>
> Correct. Also, if jars are in WEB-INF/lib and NOT in CLASSPATH, and the
> context has the "reloadable=true" attribute set in server.xml, Tomcat will
> automatically reload the jars if they change. This means you don't have to
> keep restarting Tomcat while you're developing your jars -- very useful.
> The secret is that you need different CLASSPATHs for compiling your java
> files and for running Tomcat. It took me two months to discover this, it is
> so poorly documented, I thought I'd better share it.
>
