I am running Tomcat 4.1.12 on Linux and Win2k. I do not install the "LE" version. I install the "full" version, which already has activation.jar and mail.jar in common/lib and xercesImpl.jar and xmlParserAPIs.jar in common/endorsed.
I have no idea why Tomcat 4.1 has problems loading java.* from webapps. As for Xerces in common/lib. Given the endorsement as defined by Sun, I would think you would still load the interfaces for org.w3.dom, etc., from your 1.4 JDK. However, factories for creating parsers are in JAXP, I believe, which would be javax.* packages, which are not part of endorsement, so they are fine coming from a non-endorsed source. As I read Sun's docs, this seems in line with the endorsement concept, which only covers third-party APIs that Sun happens to ship as part of the JDK/JRE. Scott Nichol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:52 PM Subject: Re: activation.jar > Oops, replied before finishing. > > > in catalina_home\bin\setclasspath.bat, we see that only the endorsed dir is > being endorsed > > rem Set the default -Djava.endorsed.dirs argument > set JAVA_ENDORSED_DIRS=%BASEDIR%\bin;%BASEDIR%\common\endorsed > > And a look at the doc on the subject > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/standards/ provides extra confusion, > as it only talks about sax, dom, javvax.rmi.Corba and org.omg > implementations. > > This leads me to suspect that the fact that tc4.1 doesnt load in java.* > files in a webapp is not an artifact of endorsement (it cant be, given > common\lib works), so much as an artifact of their classloader > implementation (just like Ant1.5.x's <java> task doesnt get access to > "sun.*" or many other classes in rt.jar, only the java.* and javax.* sets) > > > So finger pointing at Sun may not be appropriate; we should change our docs > accordingly. > > One thing that confuses me: add xerces to common\lib and everyone gets > xerces, which is at odds with the endorsement concept. > > -steve > >
