--- Hans Schlenker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > E B wrote: > > > > Hi > > How do you package a webapp for shipping? > > make a war? okay, but I want things to be > > setup in other directories as well. like > > putting some jar files in common/lib and > > putting a file myconfig.xml in common/classes. > > > Making a war should be fine. Why do you want to > install things > elsewhere? >
well, I want my classes to be visible to soap webapp. so I need to put them under common/classes. Now once I take my webapp's classes up, I have to take them all. so additional config files too in the common/classes. > I have the problem to use a native library from > different web apps (i.e. > different versions of the same one) which requires > to install files into > some shared location, e.g. $CATALINA_HOME/lib. This, > however, yielded > some runtime problems: see subject "howto install > shared jar's at > runtime" in this mailing list. > > Generally, if you want to deploy your webapp using > the (Tomcat4) manager > tool, there is no standard way to install files > other than in > $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/XXX . Copying anything > elsewhere must be done by > your own webapp. If this is your problem, I could > provide you with some > code that allows you to unzip one given > jar/zip/war-file into different > file system locations. > But it would not be as easy as deploying a war file. just place it in webapps folder and start tomcat once and its done. In my case, a script needs to be run explicitly. telling this to a user makes his life hard :) It seems I have to live with this :-) > Regards, > > Hans > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
