Hmm, doesn't it do that already? ...just in either the work directory,
or the webapp directory instead of a zip file. In all cases, it looks
like an InputStream is used.

The JRE *does* support url based class loading...I wonder if you could
use the jar:file! syntax to get an InputStream from the war and make it
load jar files from it that way?

Larry

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One item for emphasis: the JRE provides the feature of adding a JAR to
the classpath. The JRE does not offer direct support for WAR semantics,
such as JAR files in the WEB-INF/lib directory. Tomcat would have to,
for example, have a classloader that searched the WAR file in the
specified order. This would be a massive effort. That's the difference
between 'stuff in a JAR' and 'stuff in a WAR'. 


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