Jon Stevens wrote:
> Ok,
>
> I'm sure it is me not paying attention, but is there some reason why the
> tomcat 4.0 nightly directory structure looks like this now:
>
> common/lib/
> 100 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 98496 Feb 22 03:46 jndi.jar
> 56 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 53553 Feb 22 03:46 naming.jar
> 76 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 74747 Feb 22 03:46 servlet.jar
>
> server/lib/
> 488 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 498094 Feb 22 03:46 catalina.jar
> 184 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 187162 Feb 22 03:46 crimson.jar
> 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 29871 Feb 22 03:46
> jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar
> 28 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 28404 Feb 22 03:46 jaxp.jar
> 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon staff 30543 Feb 22 03:46 warp.jar
>
> In other words, why are things now in a nested /lib directory? Is that for
> classloader issues?
>
Sort of. The new bootstrap environment will add all of the following things
to the classloader that Catalina uses for its internal classes (the servlet
container part) if they exist:
$CATALINA_HOME/server/classes (i.e. unpacked directory)
$CATALINA_HOME/servler/lib/*.jar (ie.. packed JAR files)
This makes it easier for people who want to add customizations to Catalina --
they no longer have to JAR things up first.
It was discussed on TOMCAT-DEV last Friday.
>
> thanks,
>
> -jon
>
Craig
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