can't you just have ant copy the modified classes(or jar) to WEB-INF? > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris gokey [mailto:cgokey@;gcmd.nasa.gov] > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:34 AM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > > 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> >
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