Hmm.. I read the Servlet 2.2 spec today and missed that. Must get more coffee :-)
Thanks
Roland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Layman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: Config: zip-files (dev pls look!)
>
> Section 9.4 of the Servlet 2.2 spec (page 44) states that
> WEB-INF/lib/*.jar is the location for Java Archives and does not mention any
> other resources. Since .zip is not mentioned, if you used them in the lib
> folder then you could have a non-compliant webapp, which would make Tomcat a
> non-compliant web server, which would violate the whole purpose of a
> "Reference" implementation.
>
> Randy
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roland Carlsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:37 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Config: zip-files (dev pls look!)
> >
> >
> > Renaming the zip to jar did the trick for me.
> >
> > If any developer are looking perphaps they can explain why
> > tomcat doesn't support .zip-files (of academic interest).
> >
> > Regards
> > Roland
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kershaw, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:32 PM
> > Subject: RE: Config: zip-files
> >
> >
> > > On my windows NT installation I had to resort to hardcoding
> > the zip file
> > > into the classpath. This was the only way it worked. There
> > is probably a
> > > correct way to do it. For example:
> > >
> > > Location
> > > C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\lib\classes12.zip
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > CLASSPATH = ...;C:\tomcat\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\lib\classes12.zip
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ADAM FOWLER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 8:06 AM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Config: zip-files
> > >
> > >
> > > JAVA_HOME/jre/lib
> > >
> > > Adam.
> > >
> > > At 13:51 14/06/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> > > >Hi!
> > > >I got a zip-library containing jdbc drivers. Where do I
> > put this so it is
> > > accesseble to the whole server?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks in advance
> > > >Roland Carlsson
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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> > >
> >
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