We never run Tomcat as root so this is not an issue. So what is the general pattern? To add to your Ant build script to create a jar of your application and place it in WEB-INF whenever the classes change? This is fine for small applications but for development, but for very large apps, it seems like pointing it to your general classes would be much easier. Or is it possible for Ant to do incremental changes to a jar file?
Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: tomcat-user-return-39993- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tomcat-user-return- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Turner, > John > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:08 AM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > And in general, symbolic links from an application space running as root > is > generally a bad idea. > > John > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andreas Probst [mailto:andpro77@;gmx.net] > > Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 10:48 AM > > To: Tomcat Users List > > Subject: Re: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > you could set your classpath in the tomcat startup script. But > > this is not recommended. There were messages a few days ago > > explaining this. > > > > Besides, it might not always be desirable that Tomcat knows when > > classes change... > > > > Andreas > > > > > > On 2 Nov 2002 at 7:52, Chris gokey wrote: > > > > > Under UNIX it was very convenient for us to create a symbolic > > > link from our WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes directory to the > > > respective directories in our package that contained our jars and > > > to the base directory of our package structure (for the purpose > > > of setting up the CLASSPATH). But unfortunately this approach is > > > not platform independent and won't work under windows. Is my > > > only alternative to copy all these files to WEB-INF? The > > > advantage of symbolically linking is that any time these classes > > > changed, Tomcat would automatically know about it. Is there > > > another way to tell Tomcat where my claases are? Possibly > > > specify the CLASSPATH in my web.xml file? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
