Re: Using links to JAR files in WEB-INF/lib directory throws exceptions
The directory /var/lib/tomcat4/webapps accept .war files as well as
unpackaged directories and files tree, since it complies with the webapp
structure.
On Monday 17 February 2003 14:12, florian@steinsiepe.ch wrote:
> Dear (Debian) Java Developers,
>
> according to the Debian Java policy, JAR files used by a Java application
> (here: Java web application) must reside in /usr/share/java.
> If I establish soft links in the directory <mywebapp>/WEB-INF/lib and start
> "mywebapp", I always get an InvalidArgumentException which tells me
> something about an invalid or unparseable TLD within the linked JAR
> file(s). This doesn't occur at all when I use physically present JAR files
> within the WEB-INF/lib directory.
>
> My environment is a testing/unstable one, using the latest kernel
> (2.4.20-5), Catalina (4.1.18-1) and Blackdown Java (1.4.0.99beta). But I
> had this problem on each earlier version within the last 6 months,
> therefore I don't think that the problem is based on the unstable versions
> of the software...
>
> I know that there is a directory (/usr/share/java/webapps) which is
> designed to take the WAR files shared for each servlet runner, but what
> about a webapp which is not distributed as such a WAR file? And why doesn't
> Tomcat itself suffer from this problem (i.e. if I link a JAR file into
> Tomcat's common/lib directory, everything works fine)?
>
> Thank you in advance for each advice/help
> Florian
>
> ------------------
> Florian Steinsiepe
> florian@steinsiepe.ch
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