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Jars and Class Loading, Jboss v5.x

July 15, 2010 / posted in Jboss / 3 Comments

So where do I put all my jars?

As you write your applications you’re bound to leverage third party libraries to cut down on the amount of work; lets face it no one wants to reinvent the wheel. A downside is sometimes these third party libraries might not be the most mature or stable releases to date. As your product grows and matures, or you expand your client base or number of implementations, you’re bound to come across multiple third party library dependencies, even ones across the same library but different versions, what a headache! How can we organize these…

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War deployment file structure

January 25, 2010 / posted in Java, Jboss / 1 Comment

What’s a war deployment, do I need my own army?

When it comes to deploying an web based application we have a few options on the table. Well only one really if you stick to J2EE standards, not counting Ear deployments which also deploy web apps via wars. Outside the world of J2EE though, it becomes a crap shoot based on the web framework you’re using. So what’s a war look like?

webapp.war
	|-- images/
	|   `-- banner.jpg
	|-- index.html
	|-- jsps/
	|   |-- public/
	|   |   `-- login.jsp
	|   `-- private/
	|       |-- application.jsp
	|

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