meta-inf

What's the purpose of META-INF?

In Java, you often see a META-INF folder containing some meta files. What is the purpose of this folder and what can I put there? ...

Web Services in Unix. What should be the directory structure

I earlier got to create a simple RESTful webservice on my localhost using Eclipse IDE, Tomcat, and JAX-RS libraries. I am now trying to move the same on to a different unix server which has Tomcat installed. I am not knowing how to get started as in what is equivalent to creating a "Dynamic Web Project" that I do in Eclipse. Do I need t...

Java Applet requests /META-INF/services/javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory

I have a signed java applet that runs on a web page and every time it loads, it requests the following files on the host: GET /META-INF/services/javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory GET /META-INF/services/com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.dom.XSLTCDTMManager The server returns a HTTP 404 for each of them and it has no impact...

JRockit vs HotSpot classloading issue - META-INF/services

According to the javadoc of javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory#newInstance, I can specify which implementation of SchemaFactory I want, by placing a file in META-INF/services called javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory with the required class (in my case org.apache.xerces.jaxp.validation.XMLSchemaFactory). This works fine when I run Weblo...