> Yes, of course including the jdbc jar in WEB-INF/lib is gonna make the
.war
> platform specific in so far as the database is concerned. What other
option
AHHH ok I was thinking, "wtf? JDBC drivers run on any platform!" =)
- r
>
> On Tuesday 14 August 2001 02:22 pm, you wrote:
> > Frankly, I'm not quite sure I understand what your problem is. I've
> used
> > JDBC drivers from Oracle, Postgres, Sun, and (in a roundabout way)
> Versant, > and I'm yet to see anyone release a platform-specific JDBC jar.
> >
> > Anyway, all I do is throw the .jar into the WEB-INF/lib path of the app
> > that uses it, and it always works for me.
> >
> > What are you trying to do?
> >
> > - r
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:37:44 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >>Use "%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib" if you want a JAR
> > > >>file visible to both applications *and* Catalina internal classes
> > > >> (which
> > > >>
> > > >>is rarely necessary).
> > >
> > > What about servlets that load at startup? Which directory does
Catalina
> > > search? For servlets that load at startup, will Catalina find servlet
> > > classes in war files in the webapps folder? This didn't work for me.
> > >
> > >
> > > ____________________Reply Separator____________________
> > > Subject: Re: war files. (tomcat 4.0 beta 7)
> > > Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Date: 8/14/2001 9:26 AM
> > >
> > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
> > > > James, Stuart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > I have packaged my web application in a .war file and deployed it
> >
> > using
> >
> > > > > tomcat 4.0 beta 7.
> > > > >
> > > > > perfect.
> > > > >
> > > > > The only way I could get it to work was to copy my database jar
> files > >
> > > into > > web-inf\lib, this would make my war file platform dependent
as
> > > most database > > vendors ship different jars for each operating
> system. > >
> > > > > I tried them in the %CATALINA_HOME%\lib but that did not help.
> > > > >
> > > > > suggestions / recommendations.
> > > >
> > > > I _believe_... It's not %CATALINA_HOME%\lib, but
> > >
> > > %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib >
> > >
> > > No, "%CATALINA_HOME%\lib" is the right place for JARs that should only
> be > > seen by applications. Use "%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib" if you want
a
> JAR > > file visible to both applications *and* Catalina internal classes
> (which > > is rarely necessary).
> > >
> > > Without knowing what the failure symptoms are when you put the JDBC
> > > driver files into "%CATALINA_HOME%\lib", it's a little hard to debug
> > > "that
> > >
> > > did not help".
> > >
> > > > But I might be wrong...
> > > >
> > > > Pier
> > >
> > > Craig
>
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