We don't use symbolic links. Everything is under Tomcat's directory tree.
What is the advantage to using symbolic links or an external classpath? I'm not seeing what advantage you would get. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris gokey [mailto:cgokey@;gcmd.nasa.gov] > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:30 AM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > That's actually what I was referring to by the building an incremental > jar. Maybe that isn't the right term, but I meant as the > classes change > it will automatically update the jar with only the changed > classes. Of > course copying the changed class files to WEB-INF/classes would work > too. I just do not know enough about Ant to know if it can > capture the > classes that have changed and copy them. Still seems like it would be > nice to be able to specify an external classpath in the web.inf file.. > thus, you wouldn't need two copies of your classes and jars > on the same > machine. What does everyone else do? Just have a script that does a > straight copy? > > Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tomcat-user-return-40012- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:tomcat-user-return- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Cox, > > Charlie > > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:40 AM > > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > > Subject: RE: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > > 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> > > > > > > > -- > > 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> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
