Re: [Exist-open] Problem with optional Compression module...

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

We could perhaps use the Apache commons compress package instead. But
isnt Ant shipped with eXist?

2009/11/4 Andrzej Jan Taramina <an...@ch...>:
> If you enable the optional Compression Module, it won't load when Tomcat/eXist starts up (if you are using a war-based
> eXist implementation running inside Tomcat) with the following error in the exist logs:
>
> 2009-11-04 11:48:46,000 [main] WARN  (XQueryContext.java [lookupModuleClass]:2816) - Module
> http://exist-db.org/xquery/compression could not be initialized due to a missing dependancy (NoClassDefFoundError):
> org/apache/tools/tar/TarOutputStream
>
> Doing some digging, I found that the class TarOutputStream class is found in the ant.jar file which is not something
> that is included in the war by default.
>
> I'm not really sure we should be using ant.jar and the TarOutputStream class therein in an eXist runtime module. It
> would seem very wrong to include ant.jar in a production war that way.
>
> We could create a stripped down jar file just including the TarOutputStream and related classes and put it in
> eXist/lib/optional as one approach to resolve this.
>
> Any suggestions as to how best to fix the issue, without including the whole ant.jar in a production deployment?
>
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> Andrzej Taramina
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