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, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
