UnPacked Deployment And Cluster

Question

Hi
we have web application and we plan to deploy it to 3 clustered weblogic servers
our application also need to deal with users docs and imgs dynamically, so in our webroot we have sub folder named (files) contain all user files and we need to read/write files in this folder
now we have  tow scenarios :
1: in regular deployment by deploy EAR file to this clustered
this work fine and deploy one time and update one time then the file will be reflected on other servers
but users (files) folder will be in EAR file inside WAR file and this difficult to mange files inside war specially writing and save because physical path needed and also updating war to keep new files available
2: in unpacked deployment by extract the EAR/WAR archive in to some directory in managed server folder then deploy using this directory from administrator console
this work fine even for user files management
but if we have 3 clustered weblogic server
is must  extract files in all 3 servers ?
and in case of update is also must be extracted (every time) in all 3 servers  ?
or is there a way in cluster environment -without EAR- to extract one time and then be reflected to others

Answer 1

Let me get it correct - you want to externalize the files from the package. If that is the case then,
Package the files in a jar and deploy it on the Cluster as a Shared Library and let you WAR reference this library.
Cheers,
NJ