I encountered a weird problem – when I put my application JAR within the WEB-INF/lib directory, it doesn’t work. But when create a WEB-INF/classes directory and unzip my JAR there it works just fine .
Any help?
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I encountered a weird problem – when I put my application JAR within the WEB-INF/lib directory, it doesn’t work. But when create a WEB-INF/classes directory and unzip my JAR there it works just fine .
Any help?
The behavior you’re describing is wanted and completely natural.
/WEB-INF/classeshas to contain the classes of your Java EE application. If you had used an IDE to pack a WAR (Web application ARchive) file, you would have noticed your application getting placed exactly there. A WAR file is the usual way for deploying.As the name says
/WEB-INF/libis the default search path for libraries. Libraries are usually distributed as JAR file and therefore these are placed in thelibdirectory.In conclusion, it’s now obvious why it won’t work if you place your application JAR in the
libdirectory because of two mistakes – your files shouldn’t be packed in any archive and thelibdirectory is for (packed) libraries.