Re: [WebMacro-user] Accessing templates in jars

[Tim P. <ti...@pa...>]

Hi Keats, 

Thanks for your patience, 

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:47, Keats Kirsch wrote:
> I guess you can see the issue here.  You want to use Servlet-specific
> functionality without introducing Servlet-specific code.  I suppose you
> could create a new version of WM that allows you to set the broker
> outside of the constructor, but at some point you'll have to provide a
> reference to the context so that the broker knows where to look.

The default behaviour currently appears to be to look for 
templates in a sub-set of the classpath ?

I only have a naive view of how the servlet container classpath 
works but I got the impression it was something like 

CLASSPATH = WEB-INF/classes; WEB-INF/lib/*.jar ; endorsed/*.jar ; inheritted 
classpath 

Is the above not available as a list of places to look, 
perhaps even in a handy CLASSPATH environment variable, 
without having to invoke a servlet specific broker?

I guess what I don't understand is if a class can be found both in 
WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib/*.jar why can't a template?

So I guess I can't see why this is servlet specific functionality?

thanks again

tim