Does Spring help me manage my jars?

[hernansilberman]

I'm wondering if the Spring container provides any help for managing the myriad jar files our application needs on the server side. I'd love to stick them into a directory like Tomcat and some j2ee servers let us do and not have to worry about building the classpath manually in a manifest or elsewhere. Is there a bean that can be used in Spring that helps do this? Is there a utility outside of Spring that can be used to do this?
thanks...
Hernan

[Colin Sampaleanu]

Spring has no built-in classpath management...

[hernansilberman]

Quick update, I found commons-launcher which solves my problem very nicely:

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/launcher/

Another excellent solution to a common problem from the folks at apache.org.

hernan