Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 51232 invoked by uid 500); 19 Jun 2001 02:29:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 51220 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2001 02:29:43 -0000 Message-ID: <00a401c0f867$c524ff30$82deb018@c538761a> From: "Remy Maucherat" To: References: Subject: Re: cvs commit:jakarta-tomcat-4.0/catalina/src/share/org/apache/catalina/loaderWebappClassLoader.java Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:30:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N > on 6/18/01 7:12 PM, "remm@apache.org" wrote: > > > - All the JARs in /WEB-INF/lib are extracted and copied to the work directory, > > even if the resources are filesystem based. Otherwise, it is not possible to > > actually manipulate the JARs which are in the webapp while they're open, at > > least under Windows. This operation is relatively fast anyway. > > So, what is the side effect of this? Will that directory now grow without > bounds? Obviously, the "side effect" is not that huge. Try it first, and complain later if it's really a problem :) > I'm not sure I like a hack like this that is clearly winblows specific. Can > you do this conditionally depending on platform? It's not a hack, it's just about robustness. Maybe it would be a problem on some other platform, I just don't know. Remy