Hi,
I am currently running Tomcat 8.0.30 on a Red Hat Linux 64 bit O/S (2.6.18). My
question is, I hope, simple. I want to tell Tomcat to look in a child directory
of the WEB-INF/lib directory for jar files that contain classes my web app
requires. For example, I have four main jar files that reside in the
WEB-INF/lib directory. Under the WEB-INF/lib directory I have a directory that
contains jar files that support one or more of the main jar files. However no
matter what I put in the MANIFEST.MF file the jar files in the child
directories are not located. Here is what I currently have in my
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file for the web app context. I only have one library(jar
file) at this point because I was trying to limit the variables and this is the
jar file that contains the class that can not be located.
Manifest-Version: 1.0Class-Path: libraries/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar
I have also tried the KV Pair, Dependencies:
libraries/commons-fileupload-1.2.2.jar.
When I looked at the Tomcat 8 source code, I believe it is trying to read the
MANIFEST.MF file. So my question is, can I use the MANIFEST.MF file to tell
Tomcat to look in child directories of the web app context or am I limited to
the WEB-INF/lib directory only for supporting jar files?
Regards,
Andy Smith
