I concluded that from statements from Remy on different occasions;
Jason Brittain also mentions it in his new book, and finally our
production experience tells us that its better to. Unless you want
your server to be busy compiling jsps instead of serving requests some
time after start :-)

regards
Leon

On 8/7/07, Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@(protected)
<Gerhardus.Geldenhuis@(protected):
> Hi Leon,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leon Rosenberg [mailto:rosenberg.leon@(protected)]
> > Sent: 07 August 2007 09:40
> > To: Tomcat Users List
> > Subject: Re: Best practice application deployement
> >
> > just a side note, the recommended deployment for production
> > environment isn't a war file. instead put the webapp folder
> > directly under webapps (or whenever your docroot directory
> > is) AND put precompiled jsps under work.
>
> Out of curiosity do you know why a webapp folder is better or recommended as
> opposed to using a war file. To be honest I have no idea what the difference
> is. I am immerging myself in the tomcat world but there is a lot to learn.
> Could you provide a link that substantiate this recommendation of not using
> war files?
>
> Regards
>
>
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