Re: tomcat lib folder and subfolders
On 2009-07-14 19:35:28 -0400, Arne Vajh?j <arne@vajhoej.dk> said:
Owen Jacobson wrote:
On 2009-07-13 16:11:31 -0400, grasp06110 <grasp06110@gmail.com> said:
Is there a way to get tomcat to look at jar files in subfolders of the
<TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/lib folder? Everyone seems to
just dump everything into this folder directly which makes it kind of
hard to keep things organized (especially when one component/api/unit
is swapped out for another).
If you have enough libraries in there that this is a problem, consider
using real dependency management to build your WAR file. Maven
(http://maven.apache.org/) or Ivy (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/) can,
from a list of dependencies that your code directly uses, dump out all
the JARs that need to go in lib, saving you from having to organize it
by hand.
I read the question as if he wanted to divide the deployment
lib directory - not the source lib directory.
There's a difference?
Aside from the EE API classes (javax.servlet.* and friends), the WAR's
runtime library set is a superset of the compile-time library set.
Except for container-managed resources, the JARs for those go inside
the app -- and under Tomcat's default configuration, wind up unpacked
to <TOMCAT_HOME>/webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/lib/ .
-o
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