On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:02:27AM -0400, Zollinhofer, Matt wrote:
: So, it works, but I don't really understand the necessity of having the
: particular jar file on the classpath.
Is this a confusion of
"class directories vs JAR files"
or
"webapp class search paths"
?
JAR files and directories are equivalent in Java: they both contain a
hierarchy of classes and resources. (You can think of a class dir as an
exploded JAR file.)
When building on the commandline (with ant or straight javac) you must
explicitly set the classpath.
With webapps, it's a little different: JAR files from certain
directories are automagically included for you. Imagine the
container, on startup, scans for WEB-INF/lib/*.jar and puts those in
its search path.
That's not a Tomcat thing; that's the servlet spec.
-or did I miss your question entirely?
-QM
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