my structure is [catalina]/webapps/[myapplication]/WEB-INF/lib
is there anything else I need to do to tell Tomcat this is my web application? It does find the stuff in WEB-INF/classes though Thanks Heikki -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:13 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Classloader question Check that the directory containing WEB-INF is a context path for a web application. Perhaps Tomcat isn't recognizing your WEB-INF directory because it doesn't know that the parent directory is the base of a web application (or your docbase, for example). Hope this helps... -Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heikki Doeleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:06 PM Subject: Classloader question > Hi everyone, > > trying to make a web application work using Tomcat 4.0.1 I found the > following behaviour, which I don't quite understand: > > my application uses a library called xhive.jar > > - putting xhive.jar in [catalina]/common/lib > This works fine, as expected > > > - putting it in [myapp]/WEB-INF/lib > Causes a ClassDefNotFoundError. I don't know why this is so, it does not > seem to conform to the description in class-loader-howto.html. However I did > see someone saying that in that directory, only .class files are added to > the classpath, not .jars > (http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/193/2000/12/0/4841079/). > > > - putting it in both those places > Causes a ClassCastException ?? Something seems to go terribly wrong when the > jar is placed in both those directories. > > Can anyone explain more about this? I'd like to know exactly how this works, > especially I'd like to know why classes from a jar in my application's > WEB-INF/lib apparently are not loaded. > > Thanks > Heikki Doeleman > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
