Hi, First off let me say there is no right or wrong, just what works best for each person/organization.
> 1) I install maven on my PC, where I will develop Tapestry web applications. > 2) Maven will download any missing dependencies, and place them inside my > apps lib folder. Some people loath Maven others love it, but Maven excels in alleviating dependency management issues, an inherent weakness in Java. To elaborate a little... library issues are the pits to track down and fix, so you don't want any versioning mistakes or a mismatch of jars in development vs. production, something that tends to happen all too often, especially when more than one person is involved. On this point, I would also suggest you deploy all your libs in your application war (local lib folder), and as little as possible in your shared folder... I am sure there will be mixed feelings on this issue, as some may argue the drawbacks (i.e.: additional resources and class-loading, deployment of larger wars), but the benefits are far greater in my experience (simpler 'lighter' container, less chance of resource conflicts or configuration errors, threading and memory errors... a leaky jar can bring down your server and all your apps! but what's far worse is when it simply degrades performance, which is even harder to trace). So be very picky as to what goes into shared, and this is the approach advocated in the docs, here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html#Class_Loader_Definitions Cheers, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Dodunski" <chrisfromsquir...@christopher.net.nz> To: users@tapestry.apache.org Sent: Monday, 13 September, 2010 02:40:38 GMT +02:00 Athens, Beirut, Bucharest, Istanbul Subject: How to set up Tapestry 5 on Tomcat 5 Hi, Thank you everyone for your help. For the sake of clarification (please correct me where I am wrong): 3) I can then test run my Tapestry application locally on a local installation of Tomcat. Now, to deployment: 1) I upload the WAR to my VPS via Tomcat manager (i.e. VPS installation of Tomcat). 2) Assuming Tomcat there provides the same dependencies as Tomcat locally (tomcat/shared/lib), my Tapestry application should run fine. Is it the usual practice to rely on maven to place all dependencies inside the applications 'lib' folder? Rather than me manually place required libraries - once and for all - inside tomcat/shared/lib on both Tomcat on my PC AND Tomcat on my VPS? Should maven be installed on my VPS? Thanks & regards, Chris. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
