Gerald, Your portlet should work just fine when copied to your WEB-INF/classes directory. Did you restart tomcat after you deployed the class? If you didn't restart, do you have your webapp's context marked as reloadable="true"?
Regards, *================================* | Scott T Weaver | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Apache Jetspeed Portal Project | | Apache Pluto Portlet Container | *================================* > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerald Stampfel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 2:39 PM > To: Jetspeed Users List > Subject: PortletFactory: Unable to load class > > Hi, > > i made a small portlet and copied the class file (+ directory structure) > into jetspeed/WEB-INF/classes. That didn't work, i got the following error > message in jetspeedservices.log: > > org.apache.jetspeed.portal.PortletException: PortletFactory: Unable to > load class foo.bar > at > org.apache.jetspeed.services.portletfactory.JetspeedPortletFactoryService. > getPortlet(JetspeedPortletFactoryService.java:217) > at > org.apache.jetspeed.services.portletfactory.JetspeedPortletFactoryService. > getPortlet(JetspeedPortletFactoryService.java:163) > at > org.apache.jetspeed.services.PortletFactory.getPortlet(PortletFactory.java > :92) > ..... > > I also created a jar, incorporating my portlet class, and copied it under > jetspeed/WEB-INF/lib. Didn't work. I did the same for tomcat/common/lib. > Didn't work too. > > Than i copied the .jar file into j2sdk/lib/ext and it worked. > > Here my question: why do the directories jetspeed/WEB-INF/class and > jetspeed/WEB-INF/lib exist when they are not given attention ? > > thanks > > > - > Gerald Stampfel > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
