I've been trying to figure out how to use jars in tomcat on Linux. The documentation states that if you place the jars tomcat/lib directory they will automatically be placed in the classpath. According to an o'reilly tutorial: http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/04/19/tomcat.html?page=1 jar files should be placed in the web-inf/lib directory of the application. Which is right? If both ways work is there an advantage either way? ------------------
Phil Hanna
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tomcat/lib jars are available to all web applications in the VM; foo/WEB-INF/lib jars are available only to servlets in the "foo" web application. ------------------ Phil Hanna Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform Author of : JSP: The Complete Reference Instant Java Servlets Website: http://www.philhanna.com
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Steve Holmes
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Thanks Phil...Does your book talk about configuring Tomcat with Apache by any chance? I haven't been real happy with the docs. Thanks again!
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