> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Firestar wrote: > > > But JRun does allow me to change it:) I was hoping > > Tomcat 4.0 would be as flexible... > > And I was hoping that you recognized how badly serverd your employer is > (by those who developed this application) if your application depends on > something as obscure as this. The *right* behavior would be to change > your app so that you are not locked in by it. > > > For e.g. another gd thing abt JRun is that it allows > > us to place our servlets and classes anywhere, instead > > of WEB-INF folder. > > It is not defined in the spec (unlike the name of the sesson id cookie :-) > so servers can do what they want in this respect. And Tomcat 4 > automatically adds any JAR files in $CATALIAN_HOME/common/lib and > $CATALINA_HOME/lib to the set of classes visible to webapps. On > Unix-based systems, you can create symbolic links to the existing JAR > files so that they don't have to be moved.
It's not well know, but you can do this with WindowsNT and later MS "operating systems" too: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q205/5/24.ASP (Read the whole thing - a lot of the juicy stuff's at the bottom.) HTH, RT -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED], 510-567-9957, http://ScienceTools.com/
