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Thanks for comments Andrew.
> Jacques,
>
> On #2, It's worth re-reading David's comments...
>
> "Some app servers, like Weblogic, do have proprietary extensions to add
> to the shared classpath inside an EAR. For others you can add to the
> global classpath to get that effect. To really annoying ones, like
> Geronimo 1.0 and Tomcat, you have to copy the jar files and other
> classpath resources into their directories... Say good-bye to in-place
> deployment ladies and gents and welcome to the hellish world of
> wondering why your changes don't seem to be doing anything..."
>
> This really can be VERY painful, especially in Windows where for some
> reason known only to the OS a lock would be maintained on a random jar
> file, so even though you think you've overwritten it, still nothing
> happens!
>
> OFBiz2.0 used ant tasks to copy the jars into Tomcat, it really was
> horrible!
>
> 2.1 embedded Mortbay's Jetty, and suddenly life was a whole lot easier!
>
> As well as that, it adds quite a bit of time onto the build script if
> it's shifting files around, which gets quite frustrating after 100
> restarts!!!
> --
> Kind Regards
> Andrew Sykes <
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