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Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> 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?
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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.
Thus we have the ability to run incompatible libs in different applications in
the SAME VM. Pretty cool!
Kevin
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