Steve, Apache, Tomcat and a huge array of other products are so-called "open-source". Usually this means they are licensed under the GPL (as Apache is). These products come in runtime and source downloads and have instructions on installation, compiling source etc. A web site called sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/) houses a repository of these projects. It is worth perusing these projects and looking at what (and how)they have done their code, jars etc. Many are just like commercial products but are usually free for most usages. They aren't tutorials on programming or web development, they are products. The jars are packaged products. If you emulate what they did and can get their stuff to run under Tomcat, you will see how your stuff should be done, in order to run in the same environment. For example, if you loot for a class file in a jar and go find the corresponding source file, you will see how they specified their package declaration and where the class file ended up in the jar that they deploy. You can open the jar in winzip.
Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Steve Burrus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:07 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Why won't anyone help me out?? Hi Chuck, I just now read your little post to me, and I apologize for my "sheer stupidity", but would u please "humor me" and tell me what exactly you mean by an "open source product"??! Am I to assume that the jar files in the product will demonstrate to me the "fine art" of packaging up class files? Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
