Scott: exactly which version of tomcat 4.1 are you running, down the last digit?
tomcat4.12 has an endorsed dir, and in the ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:32 PM Subject: Re: activation.jar > According to Tomcat 4.1 docs > (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html > ), the endorsed directory was added to accomodate the JDK 1.4 Endorsed > Standards Override Mechanism > (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/standards/index.html). The > docs for the ESOM list the packages which may be overridden, which are > basically those for CORBA or XML parsing. > > The Axis installation instructions say > >>>> > > Tomcat 4.x and Java1.4 > Java 1.4 changed the rules as to to how packages beginning in java.* and > javax.* get loaded. Specifically, they only get loaded from endorsed > directories. jaxrpc.jar and saaj.jar contain javax packages, so may not > get picked up. If happyaxis.jsp (see below) cannot find the relevant > packages, place them in CATALINA_HOME/common/lib and restart Tomcat. > <<<< > but I have not been able to confirm this looking at the sites for Tomcat > and Java. In fact, Tomcat comes with activation.jar in common/lib > (*not* endorsed), even though it includes javax.* classes. > > Scott Nichol > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:55 PM > Subject: RE: activation.jar > > > > Scott, > > > > what version of tomcat do your revised remarks apply to? > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Nichol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:48 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: activation.jar > > > > > > I was wrong about javax.*. It's just things like org.w3.* that need > to > > be in endorsed. > > > > Scott Nichol > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:32 PM > > Subject: Re: activation.jar > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Scott Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:54 AM > > > Subject: Re: activation.jar > > > > > > > > > > It needs to go in common/endorsed because it contains classes from > > > > javax.* > > > > > > > > Scott Nichol > > > > > > > > > > heh, do the latest versions of tomcat change the rules *again*. This > > will > > > break our docs. > > > > > > > > > >
