debate: Is adding third party libraries to a war a good idea?
- by Master Chief
We have a debate going on .
a. The "standard" way of assembling a web app.
Create a WAR with all our app artifacts and all other components like hibernate and memcached etc are deployed in the tomcat/shared/lib area.
b. Create a humongous war with everything included and nothing in tomcat/shared/lib.
Pros for a - It keeps things modular and the war is small.
Cons for a - dependency on shared/lib has to be managed especially by the deployment process.
Pros for b - All dependencies are controlled by the build process removing any room for error.
Cons for b - War is really, really big. If you are deploying over a network to a huge farm, then it might have an impact.
want to see what thoughts others might have about this.
