Heiko Gottschling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to the Servlet2.2 spec, all jar files stored under WEB-INF/lib
> are used by the class loader to load classes from.
>
> I am using Tomcat3.0, and in my application this doesn't work. I have a
> JDBC driver jar file stored there, but whenever I try to load the Driver
> with Class.forName(), I get an error message.
>
Tomcat 3.0 has a bug that prevents this from working. It's fixed in the most
recent milestone release for 3.1, or in the source code you can download directly
from the CVS source repository.
>
> If I explicitly include the file in my CLASSPATH, everything works fine.
> And - as also described in the spec - the class loader does find classes
> which are stored under WEB-INF/classes
>
> thx
> Heiko
>
Craig McClanahan
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