I have a question about the directories structure.
For a web application we distinguish two directories structures:
- source code directory
that contains Java classes/packages specific to the application
- deployment application directory (= Tomcat files systems)
something like
META-INF
Pages (contains JSP pages)
Images
WEB-INF
Lib
Classes
I am using CVS to archive my files, I ask me questions about the
CVS's repository for
my application, something like:
MyApp
archive - contains .war
doc - documentation
src - contains the source code directory
how must I add the deployment directory ?
Can you give me example or advices ?
I think to do:
X:\MyProject\MyApp
archive - contains .war
doc - documentation
src - contains the source code directory
pages - contains JSP pages
images
web (contains configuration files web.xml)
- lib
I will get sources from CVS, compile sources (with the IDE) and
create a .war.
To deploy the directory under Tomcat (Tomcat is installed on
y:\Tomcat) I have several solutions
1. use Ant and create a directory MyApp under y:/Tomcat/webapps and
the sub-directories WEB-INf, pages etc...
2. set an element context in the server.xml that points on
X:\MyProject\MyApp, isn't it?
For me the second solution is better because my project used for the
development (JBuilder project) points
on X:\MyProject\MyApp in order to access to the directories src,
pages, images.
When I modified a Java source file or JSP or XML file, I just have
to stop Tomcat and start it again because it
points on the updated directory.
With the first solution, I must stop Tomcat, launch the build.xml
command and restart Tomcat, isn't it ?
If I forget the build.xml command Tomcat doesn't have the updated
sources or JSP files.
I have choose the first solution because I don't know Ant and I have
not a lot of time.
Do you have remarks or advices ?
What do you think about place JSP files in src directory ? in order
to points on the X:\MyProject\MyApp\src
in the IDE and not see the other sub-directories (doc, archive,
scripts....they are unused in the IDE explorer).
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