--- "Vladimir R. Bossicard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any particular reason for building the WAR with xindice > classes > > under WEB-INF/classes? I'd rather go for the xindice-*.jar in > > WEB-INF/lib that looks much cleaner, am I missing something? > > No particular reason. I just copied from the war example of the Ant > manual. > > But as I said in a previous mail, let's first fix what's broken > before > rewriting what's working. > > -Vladimir > > -- > Vladimir R. Bossicard > Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice > >
------ >From the servlet 2.3 specification, section SRV.9.5: The contents of the WEB-INF directory are: • The /WEB-INF/web.xml deployment descriptor. • The /WEB-INF/classes/ directory for servlet and utility classes. The classes in this directory must be available to the application class loader. • The /WEB-INF/lib/*.jar area for Java ARchive files. These files contain servlets, beans, and other utility classes useful to the web application. The web application class loader must be able to load classes from any of these archive files. The web application classloader must load classes from the WEB-INF/ classes directory first, and then from library JARs in the WEB-INF/lib directory. ------ There doesn't appear to be anything in the servlet spec that I could find that would prevent anyone from doing this (putting all the classes in WEB-INF/lib). The only thing I can see that may result from placing all the classes in a jar and putting them in WEB-INF/lib is that there may be a slight performance penalty. Regards, Gerry Reno __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
