Excluded Jars

The installation process can ignore some jars when copying files to the output directory/archives.

This page discusses:

See Also
Web.xml Fragments
Fragment Files
Application Server Files

The FRAMEWORK_warExcludedJars.txt file specifies which jar files to exclude when building the installation file tree.

This file contains a list of files, separated by line feeds, that should be excluded from the installation. For example:

jar_i.jar
jar_j.jar

The full path to this file is PLATFORM/docs/javaserver/FRAMEWORK_warExcludedJars.txt.

web.xml filtering

If all referenced servlets and filters (and linked mappings) referenced in the final web.xml file are not available to the future web application environment, their declarations are removed from the web.xml file.

Resource availability

A standard path for file resources makes them easily available to the web application. The WAR Utility then ships them directly in the web application. File resources are stored in the following location:

PLATFORM/resources/warutil/resources/