How to reference a .jar file

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How to reference a .jar file

Aug 16th, 2007

I have a .jar file located in my program files that is from a third party and is require when running the bean on the web server.

When running the app in a non jsp environment, I use the

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java –cp {jar file name and location} [class name]

How do I reference the path of my .jar file, so that it is available when the jsp bean is run on the web server?

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Re: How to reference a .jar file

Aug 16th, 2007

place it in the correct location within your web application and it will be picked up automagically.
that location is of course the WEB-INF/lib directory.

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