[Opensource] Where to put jars?

Michael Rimov rimovm at centercomp.com
Sat Jan 4 16:52:52 PST 2003


At 05:20 PM 1/3/2003 -0200, you wrote:
>I'm trying to configure a SQLServer context, so I had this doubt: where
>should I put jar files? i couldn't find any classpath definition, so I just
>copy the jar files to expresso/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib. It seemed to work
>fine. Is this the right place? What does expresso do when starting up? Does
>it put every .jar file on this directory in the CLASSPATH?

You might want to checek out the Servlet API specifications there.  By 
default, every jar file in WEB-INF/lib is automatically included by the 
servlet engine classloader.  So yes, this is the right place.

HTH!
                                                 -Mike





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