Hi there,
just a question for my understanding: We use a little framework for our apps (comes with a lot from the Apache site and some stuff from a vendor and some stuff from us). So all apps share 80% of the classes used.
When creating the WAR file I always include the full set of classes, since I can't know if the stuff is already there. In terms of diskspace that is stupid (however how many GB can you buy for 1h of tech-support ;-) ).
Is it also stupid in terms of resource useage? Will
Tomcat (5) load a class twice if it is identical, but stored twice in different directories?
I know we could deploy the common classes into /common/lib. But then we might interfere with other apps?
What is a good deployment strategy. I think if Tomcat is smart enough about the classes, our current approach is fair enough?
;-) stw