Hello, In Tomcat 3.2, the toString() method in org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveClassLoader class is as follows: public String toString() { return "AdaptiveClassLoader( )"; } For this method to be more informative, I suggest: public String toString() { StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer(); sbuf.append("AdaptiveClassLoader("); sbuf.append(generation); sbuf.append(")"); return sbuf.toString(); } The generation information is important as it indicates whether the loader has changed. The code in TC 4.0 is apparently completely different... Best regards, Ceki -- Ceki Gülcü Web: http://qos.ch email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope to see you at my ApacheCon 2001 presentation entitled "Log4j, A Logging Package for Java". See http://ApacheCon.Com/2001/US/ for more details.