We have following reqirements: - each site can have a different version of a tool - many sites share the same vesion of the tool - a site may change the needed version of a tool - a site may replace a tool by a different one (switch from postgres to firebird)
We have a setup like this: /usr/local/tool-a-v1/lib/toola.jar /usr/local/tool-a-v2/lib/toola.jar /usr/local/tool-a-v3/lib/toola.jar /usr/local/tool-b-v1/lib/toolb.jar /usr/local/tool-b-v2/lib/toolb.jar /www/online/www.site-a /www/online/www.site-b ... /www/online/www.site-z Currently we use jserv and gnujsp. jserv has the concept of repositories. The repositories are added by jserv to the internal classpath. We use the repositories to connect a site with the tools it needs. So it's very easy to change the versions of the tool or to replace the tool. Now to tomcat: Without linking we would have to copy the libraries into the tomcat directory structure for each site. With copying I see two disadvantages for us: - We would have several copies of the same libraries. Although disk space get cheaper, this is something that disturbs me (May be caused by the fact that my first hard disk had less space than a modern grafic card or handheld has memory: 40MB) - We loose the 'natural' information which version of the library we use in specific site. - If we would have to replace a version of a tool by a patched version, we could just replace the central file, now we have to copy this file to all instances that use this version. With linking the libraries we could solve both disadvantages for us. > -----Original Message----- > From: Turner, John [mailto:JTurner@;AAS.com] > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:39 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Tomcat and CLASSPATH > > > 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. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
