Yes, I did restart Tomcat for about fifty times (no exaggeration). And, again, I did copy the classes to my WEB-INF/classes dir and it didn't work; copying it to my j2sdk/jre/lib/ext did it.
I'm using Jetspeed 1.4 and tomcat 4.1 btw. - Gerald Stampfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Weaver, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jetspeed Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: RE: PortletFactory: Unable to load class > 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] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]