JSTL libraries in a common directory

[vadym]

Hi

Is there a way of putting jstl.jar and common.jar NOT in WAR's /WEB-INF/lib, but somewhere in the application server directory structure? I tried (with no luck):

jboss3.2.6/lib
jboss3.2.6/server/default/lib
jboss3.2.6/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar

~Vadym

[norman.richards]

Sure, you can put them elsewhere, but then you need to copy the tld files out and into your WEB-INF directory. I think I'd rather just have the full JARs myself.

[vadym]

Thanks, Norman!

Hm, I thought I tried that. Probably I forgot to put a proper taglib element in web.xml... Anyway, it worked this time with the jar files in jboss3.2.6/server/default/lib
I like this setup - if you have a lot of web applications deployed it's a good saving on JVM memory - a jar gets loaded only once.

~Vadym

[norman.richards]

Unless you are using scoped deployments, the JAR file would only get loaded once anyways.