Came across an interesting idea in a directory structure for the examples in a Spring tutorial at Zabada Technologies. I’ve never seen it before, but it does solve a common problem I’ve had with mixing jars that were only needed for testing or things like the servlet-api.jar which would already be in any container.
The solution is simple. The main top level
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/lib
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directory just contains all the jars that are actually needed to run the app. Another top level
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/lib-build
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is just used for dependent jars like the servlet-api.jar and the junit.jar that would only be used for building.
Since I still haven’t looked into AppFuse and it’s directory structure I don’t know whether I’ll adopt this as a default for the team yet, but it is a nice simple solution. I just have to run it by our development practices committee, and convince them of the usefulness.