On 1/22/15, 8:07 AM, Greg Wilkins wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> we've had a jetty user question that came up that we thought we new
> the answer for sure.
>
> They have a jar file which contains a META-INF/resources directory in
> which they have a WEB-INF/classes directory.
>
> Our understanding of META-INF/resources is that it is only for static
> content that can be obtained via getResource and that it is not a
> place where you can put things like WEB-INF/classes and expect them to
> appear on the context classpath.
>
> Our thinking is that if you allow META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/classes,
> then surely you would have to allow META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/lib,
> which could then contain jars that contain
> META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/lib, which contain jars that contain....
> and it is turtles all the way down.
+1.
Shing Wai Chan
>
> We were pretty sure this is correct, but have been told that tomcat at
> least is putting META-INF/resources/WEB-INF/classes on the contexts
> classpath.
>
> We can't see anything in the spec that suggests that
> META-INF/resources/WEB-INF should be scanned for classpath
> components. You can see the original question and our response
> here:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28078902/jetty-8-can-a-web-fragment-jars-meta-inf-resources-web-inf-classes-directory/
>
> So I think we need to clarify the spec on this point one way or the other.
>
> cheers
>
>
>
>
>
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