Re: embed .jar files
bencoe@gmail.com wrote:
It sounds to me that what you're trying to do is get a servlet up and
going. If you're hoping to use third party libraries the /WEB-INF/
classes/ folder represents the root directory of your servlet
application.. you can place whatever libraries you want to use here
which can be accessed via your servlets.
Neither statement is correct.
You put your web application in a subdirectory in the 'webapps/' subdirectory
of ${CATALINA_HOME}/. That sub-subdirectory has the same name as the
application and is the root of the application. WEB-INF/ is a subfolder of
the application root, not a parent folder.
You do not put your libraries in WEB-INF/classes/, you put them in WEB-INF/lib/.
The servlet itself is sort of like a PHP file, in that it takes care of rendering a web-page on the
fly for a client connecting to it... here's an example of.
That is quite a stretch. Servlets (and JSPs, which are servlets in disguise)
are really quite different from PHP files.
This is a simple servlet that shows most of the basic functions you'd
probably want to be using, with a bit of code omitted, once you get
something like this up and running, you can put the other libraries
you want to use in the /WEB-INF/classes folder,
Wrong, WEB-INF/lib/.
and access them like you would in any java [sic] application
No. Your application, which is not like "regular" Java apps, access the
libraries just like an application would access any Java libs.
... keeping in mind you use the response as the output stream.
No, you don't. You use the OutputStream of the response as the output stream.
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Lew