On 17/12/2014 02:08, Nan Ge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On 16/12/2014 18:00, Christopher Schultz wrote: >>> Nan, >>> >>> On 12/16/14 5:37 AM, Nan Ge wrote: >>>> I'm using Tomcat8. I'm not quite understand about the description >>>> of 'scanAllDirectories' attribute of the <JarScanner> component. >>>> The doc says if this attribute is set true, 'any directories found >>>> on the classpath will be checked to see if they are expanded JAR >>>> files. ... Tomcat determines if a directory is an expanded JAR file >>>> by looking for a META-INF sub-directory'. >>> >>>> Does it mean that we could extract the content of a JAR >>>> file(including the META-INF dir) to a folder under /WEB-INF/lib or >>>> /WEB-INF/classes(with unpackWAR=true) of my web application, and >>>> Tomcat will load associated classes, which were originally in the >>>> JAR, from this folder? >>> >>> I haven't tried, but I would guess that it would only work under >>> WEB-INF/lib and not WEB-INF/classes since WEB-INF/classes isn't >>> expected to ever contain JAR files (at least not ones that are >>> automatically added to the classpath, like .jar files in WEB-INF/lib >> are). >> >> I see the logic behind the guess but it is wrong. This option won't work >> for either of those directories. >> ? >> Mark >> >> Thanks Mark! > > Then how to make this 'scanAllDirectories' attribute work,
The attribute does work. There is nothing wrong with it. > or do you mean it has been discarded in Tomcat8.0 ? I mean nothing of the sort. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
