----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:10 PM Subject: Re: activation.jar
> 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. right. Didnt know they had to go into endorsed, but I do now. Actually I know now not to go for hte LE builds, which is why I have downloaded 4.1.16b full this mornining. > I have no idea why Tomcat 4.1 has problems loading java.* from webapps. must be a fussy classloader > > 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.
