Re[2]: xerces and xalan in WEB-INF/lib is not good and needs to be changed....

Hello Christian,

Friday, January 17, 2003, 10:32:41 AM, you wrote:

CC> Ok, so I've updated the build.xml to NOT put xerces and xalan jars in the
CC> WEB-INF/lib dir when the 'install' target is run.

nice :-)

CC> Per your comments on cleaning up the jars in /lib, I've added that to the
CC> clean target. Note however that if Tomcat is running Ant may not be able to
CC> delete these jars because Tomcat locks jars in the /lib dir...

This shouldn't be much of an issue.  That is always true in any
build where you do a clean.  I still don't think that the Barracuda webapp should exist in
an auto-deploy directory specified by Tomcat.  It should exist
elsewhere and the build should
install/reload/start/stop/remove/deploy/undeploy itself from wherever it
exists.  Driving all this using the build's own Ant manager tasks
provides finer grained control over the server and you never have to shut down
the server itself.

Instead of bouncing Tomcat for every modification, we should just be
running the builds catalina targets appropriately.  Tomcat itself can be up
100% of the time.  Only if you want to modify libs in Tomcat's library
folders or other Tomcat internals should there be a need to shutdown
Tomcat itself.  This avoids interruption of other apps on the server.

What do you think?

Jake