On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:42:05PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> writes: > <snip> > > > You say that the war-files allow the classloading. That is not entirely > > true. Take tomcat for example. > > > > * You place a war-file in the specified directory. > > > > * Restart tomcat. > > > > * Tomcat now unzips this file to the webapp directory. > > > > * Tomcat is started and uses the directories that has the WEB-INF dirs > > and more. > > > > Conclusion: The war-file is not used directly. It is mearly unzipped and > > because we have a deb arproach in debian the war-files is not needed. > > > > War files have a major disadvantage and that is that they are simple zip- > > archives which means that they will not support symbolic links. > > > > I think we should cover the war-files in the policy too. > > They should be avoided, right? > <snip> > > I don't understand your point. The important thing here is that the CLASSPATH > is not updated and the System ClassLoader is not used. Tomcat uses an adaptive > classloader so that WEB-INF/lib/*.jar files are specific to each Web > Application. My point is that it is the WEB-INF/lib thing that allows this, not the war files. > Thus we have the ability to run incompatible libs in different applications in > the SAME VM. Pretty cool! Yes that is pretty cool! :) Regards, // Ola > Kevin > > - -- > Kevin A. Burton ( burton@apache.org, burton@openprivacy.org, burtonator@acm.org ) > Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 > Jabber - burtonator@jabber.org, Web - http://relativity.yi.org/ > > Copyright exists to improve science not to preserve the rights of the author. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt > > iD8DBQE77ZRfAwM6xb2dfE0RAh/+AKCFxC70YVlew59k9uyVKddXE/UPrwCg0nua > q2CeU1E1voAMjFzy6DUPhd8= > =w9wN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / opal@debian.org Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | opal@lysator.liu.se 584 36 LINKÖPING | | +46 (0)13-17 69 83 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
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