Re: STOP INCLUDING EXTERNAL JARS IN YOUR JAVA PACKAGES!
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:51:07PM +1100, Jeff Turner wrote:
> > * Tomcat now unzips this file to the webapp directory.
>
> Or if you're running Tomcat 4.0 and have unpackWARs="false", the war
> isn't unzipped. I think that's Sun's goal. In the same way jars aren't
> unpacked before you can use the .class files, .wars shouldn't have to be
> unpacked.
The problem with wars is that they do not allow you to have the
jars in a common place (like /usr/share/java).
> [..]
> > I think we should cover the war-files in the policy too.
> > They should be avoided, right?
>
> If you don't like .wars, you shouldn't like .jars, for the same reasons
> :)
Well they have quite different purposes. You know I like the ar archives
in /usr/lib :)
Regards,
// Ola
> > Regards,
> >
> > // Ola
>
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