The current application has multiple directories under "webapps", with each directory having its own "WEB-INF"(with web.xml)
and related jsp,html,image files.
Current setup:
Tomcat_home
|- shared/lib
| - (.jars)
|- webapps
|-dir1
|-dir2
|-dir3
each directory
dir1
|-WEB-INF
| - (web.xml)
|- html/jsp/images
This needs to be converted to a .war (or .ear) to be deployed into JBoss. I want to know what my options are:
If I try to combine under a single .war, that would that mean having to combine the contents of each individual web.xml into a common one (in a single WEB-INF), and dumping all jsps into a common location. This effectively breaks the logical grouping
for all the jsp and related files (since they have been grouped by function in the current Tomcat setup)
1) Do I have to make seperate ".wars" for each of the dir1, dir2, dir3 and dump them into a single ".ear"? I'm not sure if breaking the application into seperate .wars is a correct option.
If this approach is used:
in the current setup, there are no "classes" sub-directories under "WEB-INF". All the class files are combined into seperate ".jars" and these are dumped into "tomcat_home/shared/lib/". Is there a way to retain all these ".jars" in a common location (maybe at the .ear level), so that they are accessable to all the .wars?
2) Are there any other options?
3) Anything I need to keep in mind when combining all these?
Thanks.
