> From: Alan Chaney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tomcat 6 and placing jars in $CATALINA_HOME/lib > > Is there any reason why these jars (and their dependencies) > should not be placed in $CATALINA_HOME/lib?
The primary reason not to lump everything in one basket is webapp independence, which the servlet spec encourages. If you do put commonly used jars in the lib directory, you're tying all your webapps to one instance of those particular classes. This can create problems with versioning, should some of your apps migrate to newer levels of the common libraries, and with reloading webapps, since those libraries may retain references somewhere to objects of the webapp. Given the price of disk and memory these days, along with automated scripts to build your .war files, the only thing you'd really save on is time to transfer an updated webapp. Is that really a dominant factor, given the drawbacks? - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
