Order of context loading

2004-06-28 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi all, I would like to define the order in which web-apps are loaded. The order in which the contexts are defined in server.xml seems to be meaningless. Is there a possibility to achive this? I got several web-apps, some depending on the services of others, so that's why. Regards, Andreas --

Re: Order of context loading

2004-06-28 Thread Andreas Probst
a second Tomcat is no option in my environment. Can a special order be achieved somehow else? Thank you, Andreas On 28 Jun 2004 at 7:02, QM wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:23:17AM +0200, Andreas Probst wrote: : I would like to define the order in which web-apps are loaded. The order

Tomcat does not accept new versions of jar or class files

2004-05-05 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi all, I've got a strange problem: Tomcat 4 does not use the new class or jar files I give it. Of course I restarted Tomcat, I even rebooted Windows. There is no way to make Tomcat use the new files. A colleage once had the same problem. After he had deleted the old class file, Tomcat reported

RE: Tomcat does not accept new versions of jar or class files

2004-05-05 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, thank you for your quick response. Now it works. The reason was: I really got the wrong class file due to a chaining of unfortunate circumstances: the build process did not run last night and I didn't realize it because my wristwatch showed the yesterday date (because April's got only 30

Re:Reloading an application non-interactively

2003-01-13 Thread Andreas Probst
On 13 Jan 2003 at 17:35, Q. Werty wrote: Try this : http://admin:password@localhost/manager/reload?path=/myapp Be aware : username and password can be catched on the wire and in log files ... It doesn't make a difference, whether the name and password are put into the URL or into the

Re: WebDav Problems

2003-01-11 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Zsolt, it might be, that it's a client problem, i.e. Webfolders isn't working correctly. I had issues with Webfolders of Windows 98. The same installation of Slide (which does WebDAV) worked on Windows 2000 Webfolders. Unfortunately I can't tell you more about this, it's just a thought.

Re: WebDav Problems

2003-01-11 Thread Andreas Probst
, 2003-01-11 at 15:37, Andreas Probst wrote: Hi Zsolt, it might be, that it's a client problem, i.e. Webfolders isn't working correctly. I had issues with Webfolders of Windows 98. The same installation of Slide (which does WebDAV) worked on Windows 2000 Webfolders. Unfortunately I can't

Re: Applet class not found error

2003-01-10 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Santosh, Tomcat won't serve the class files to the client, as it never serves files below WEB-INF. Put your class files somewhere else, but not under WEB-INF. Then it will work. Andreas On 10 Jan 2003 at 2:04, Santosh Kulkarni wrote: I'm getting the error load: class DrawChart not

Re: Applet class not found error

2003-01-10 Thread Andreas Probst
it in some other folder, we need to specify the codebase attribute too for the applet tag. Thanks Santosh --- Andreas Probst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Santosh, Tomcat won't serve the class files to the client, as it never serves files below WEB-INF. Put your class files somewhere

Re: more on source code control (like CVS)

2003-01-10 Thread Andreas Probst
On 10 Jan 2003 at 14:50, David Boyer wrote: Does anyone know of a JSP- or Servlet-based application that'll allow browsing of a CVS repository? If I host a CVS server locally for our developers, I'd like to use our existing platform (Tomcat) to allow browsing (kind of like a JSP/Servlet-based

Re: Question about Tomcat 4.1.12 WebDAV application

2003-01-08 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Jim, it might be that Windows cached your credentials. You could try Slide client (jakarta sub project Slide), which requires to type in the credentials everytime you start it. You won't need to start the Slide server or the included Tomcat, just the client at pathTo\jakarta-slide-

Re: Reading Property files...related to servlets

2003-01-06 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Sumit, you could read the properties file yourself as InputStream, create a temp file from this and pass this temp file or the real path to the temp file to the other app. It shouldn't be bad for performance, if only done once. But you can't write to it any more, because it's temp. Andreas

RE: Memory Usage and Garbage Collection

2003-01-03 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Craig, please see intermixed. On 2 Jan 2003 at 18:18, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Instances can be garbage collected IF AND ONLY IF there are no live references to that object in a static/instance/local variable of some other object that is also in memory. Only instances that are no

RE: Memory Usage and Garbage Collection

2003-01-03 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi thank you, your reply calms me down again. I guess I got a bit confused by the preceding discussion. Andreas On 3 Jan 2003 at 8:59, Shapira, Yoav wrote: Hi, There's clearly some misconceptions on the topic of garbage collection ;) These questions come up very often it seems, on this

RE: Memory Usage and Garbage Collection

2003-01-03 Thread Andreas Probst
(not only this one). Andreas On 3 Jan 2003 at 11:31, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Andreas Probst wrote: Hi Craig, please see intermixed. On 2 Jan 2003 at 18:18, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: Instances can be garbage collected IF AND ONLY

Re: servlet path

2003-01-03 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Vladimer, look for servlet mapping in the archive and/or in the servlet spec. In web.xml you can put a servlet mapping like servlet-mapping servlet-namewebdav/servlet-name url-pattern//url-pattern /servlet-mapping which routs every request to the servlet, which's name is webdav.

Re: Two instances of servlet gets created

2003-01-02 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, do you call your servlet by the pattern defined in web.xml or by the full path with invoker servlet? I once read, that using the invoker servlet means creating a new instance of your servlet. Maybe that's what causes the second init(). Hope this helps Andreas On 2 Jan 2003 at 17:22,

Re: Binary Distribution of Tomcat

2003-01-01 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, if you're looking for 4.0.6, go to http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-tomcat- 4.0/release/v4.0.6/bin/ Andreas On 1 Jan 2003 at 9:36, Ankit Patel wrote: Where can I find a binary distribution of Tomcat 4.0. The file jakarta-tomcat-4.0-MMDD.zip is not listed in the following

RE: How to start a standalone app from a servlet and problems with reading properties file

2002-12-20 Thread Andreas Probst
On 19 Dec 2002 at 11:14, aps olute wrote: The problem is someone else had written the support class. The support class will only take (File f) as its argument in its constructor. The You could read your properties, put it into a temp file, which you are guaranteed to be able to

Re: How to start a standalone app from a servlet and pro

2002-12-20 Thread Andreas Probst
? what is the underlying reason. TIA --- Andreas Probst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this question has been answered many times. Look for properties files in the archive. Hint: Use servletContext.getResourceAsStream(); On 19 Dec 2002 at 9:20, aps olute wrote

Re: How to start a standalone app from a servlet and problems with reading properties file

2002-12-19 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, this question has been answered many times. Look for properties files in the archive. Hint: Use servletContext.getResourceAsStream(); On 19 Dec 2002 at 9:20, aps olute wrote: Greetings, I have been trying to do the following using Tomcat 4.1.12: 1) Attempt to

Re: Weird messages

2002-12-12 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Zsolt, I personally find it best to read the response on top and to be able to afterwards read the full request if necessary. So I don't need to search it between the hundreds of messages that come during a day. As bandwiths doesn't matter today, the increased size shouldn't be a problem.

Re: learning filters

2002-12-11 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Erik, now you have already been told, where to look in the first place. I found Hunter's explanation of ServletResponseWrappers etc. not so easy to understand. If you have questions with this, I recommend the following message: From: Andreas Probst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List

Re: bypassing memory realms

2002-12-06 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Mike, try http://name:pass@www. How do you know the password? Andreas On 6 Dec 2002 at 8:33, J Doe wrote: Background: Consider two webapps: foo and bar. When a user of foo performs a certain action, foo shares files with bar by calling actions on each other via HTTP. We are

Re: bypassing memory realms

2002-12-06 Thread Andreas Probst
2002 at 19:04, Andreas Probst wrote: Hi Mike, try http://name:pass@www. How do you know the password? Andreas On 6 Dec 2002 at 8:33, J Doe wrote: Background: Consider two webapps: foo and bar. When a user of foo performs a certain action, foo shares files with bar

RE: Retrieving username and password from url??

2002-12-02 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Reynir, how can you get the Authentication header? As far as I know the only information you can get is the Principal and the username, but not the password, neither clear nor encoded. Andreas On 2 Dec 2002 at 9:14, Reynir Hübner wrote: Hi, Depending on the browser and authentication

Re: Tomcat 4.0.3 getResourceAsStream

2002-12-02 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Esteban, try p.getClass().getResourceAsStream(/WEB-INF/icard.properties); (inside WEB-INF) or p.getClass().getResourceAsStream(/WEB- INF/classes/icard.properties); (inside classes) or p.getClass().getResourceAsStream(/WEB- INF/lib/icard.properties); (inside lib) If this doesn't work, try

Re: Tomcat 4.0.3 getResourceAsStream

2002-12-02 Thread Andreas Probst
to place all .properties files. is that possible?... Best regards, Esteban - Original Message - From: Andreas Probst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0.3 getResourceAsStream Hi Esteban, try

Re: tomcat 4 and javax.sevlet.*

2002-11-29 Thread Andreas Probst
On 28 Nov 2002 at 17:11, David Brown wrote: Tushar Kulkarni writes: Hi, I have installed Tomcat4.1. I want to change the directory webapps\examples\JSP to say C:\myExamples. So that I can store my jsp files in to the myexamples directory and access it through the browser with the

Re: How do I get the absolute path of a file in a directory above WEB-INF directory of my web application?

2002-11-29 Thread Andreas Probst
at 11:03, Andreas Probst wrote: I can now access the folder directly above the WEB-INF folder. Actually, I meant a folder which is directly below the WEB-INF folder. This is still causing problems. Thanks Hello Peter, did you try public java.lang.String getRealPath

Re: Servlet and Applet working in Tomcat 4.0.4 standalone

2002-11-29 Thread Andreas Probst
On 29 Nov 2002 at 15:43, Patrick Kosiol wrote: deleted older messages... Hello, 1. I do not get any expansions. 2. My DirectorySystem is: WEB-INF classes myApp client server Can that works that the client and the server

Re: How to get user:password from page header?

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Andrew, there's the class org.apache.util.Base64 to encode from user input to encoded: Base64 base64 = new Base64(); String base64Encoded = new String(base64.encode(userPass.getBytes())); What you want is to decode. I suppose method decode would do. Regards, Andreas On 27 Nov

Re: How do I integrate my CLASSPATH on Tomcat?

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Emma, don't move everything to Tomcat, copy it. Keep your system %classpath% as you have and want it. BUT, put (copy) all the resources you need in your webapp in the appropriate directory, i.e. WEB-INF/lib or if they are classes to WEB-INF/classes. Maybe the Application Developers' Guide

Re: How do I integrate my CLASSPATH on Tomcat?

2002-11-27 Thread Andreas Probst
Please, calm down. I'm not a paid support staff. On 27 Nov 2002 at 12:22, Pae Choi wrote: Didn't you see the posting that came from original poster again. I don't want to move everything to tomcat, I want tomcat to read from the classpath and this way find the files. Is this possible?

Re: local WEB-INF/web.xml

2002-11-26 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Paul, at compile time you need to have servlet.jar inside your classpath. See the Application Developers' Guide at pathToTomcat/webapps/tomcat-docs/appdev/index.html Andreas On 26 Nov 2002 at 16:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried debugging the source through, my IDE and it threw a

Re: Embedded Tomcat Problem

2002-11-26 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, try to set the complete path like CLASSPATH=.;c:\path\to\lib\bootstrap.jar etc. Maybe also without quotes. In a message today it was suggested not to mix forward and back slashes as you did. Subject was: Re: Problems running Tomcat from command line I hope this helps. I can't help you with

Re: Multiple instanceq

2002-11-25 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Hari, this has been discussed several times. Try to search the archive. Andreas On 25 Nov 2002 at 11:36, Hari Venkatesan wrote: Have anybody tried creating multiple tomcat instances. Is there any documentation that explains this step by step? Hari -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Applet from servlet

2002-11-25 Thread Andreas Probst
Hello David! On 25 Nov 2002 at 9:25, David Brown wrote: Andreas Probst writes: Hi David, don't put the class files and jars, which you need for an applet, below WEB-INF. Tomcat won't serve these files to the user's browser. Just put these files in your webapp's directory

Re: Applet from servlet

2002-11-24 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi David, don't put the class files and jars, which you need for an applet, below WEB-INF. Tomcat won't serve these files to the user's browser. Just put these files in your webapp's directory. If you need the same classes also on the server, than you need to have two copies of them. Hope

Re: File Path Problem...

2002-11-21 Thread Andreas Probst
Hello, maybe you could save the absolute path inside a properties file or pass it as an init parameter in web.xml. For each location of your app you would have to set this path appropriately. You could use absolute paths and wouldn't need to change the source code of the application.

Re: Delete name-value pairs from request

2002-11-13 Thread Andreas Probst
or whatever is appropriate. As this Wrapper implements HttpServletRequest and ServletRequest you can pass this in chain.doFilter... Look for the following message in the archive. It descibes ResponseWrapper: Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:43:27 +0200 From: Andreas Probst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: Java returns bunk date!?

2002-11-10 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Josh, yes it is, but in my opinion it's a bit hidden. As starting January with 0 isn't what one would expect, it should be stressed more in the docs. in java.util.Calendar: public static final int MONTH Field number for get and set indicating the month. This is a calendar-specific

Re: Shutting down and restarting Tomcat

2002-11-08 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Peter, try this batch file (startAndStop.bat): echo off echo. echo Calling startup echo. call startup.bat echo. echo Started echo. pause echo. echo Calling shutdown echo. call shutdown.bat echo. echo Shut down echo. pause startAndStop.bat The pause command is necessary,

Re: HOW I RUNN?

2002-11-04 Thread Andreas Probst
double click tomcathome/bin/startup.bat If you get an Out of Environment Space Error Message see my message from 9 September 2002 14:17:52 +0200 (Subject: RE: Tomcat 3.1.* config problem) Andreas On 3 Nov 2002 at 23:40, CARLOS RESENDIZ REBOLLO wrote: HOW I CANT RUNN JAKARTA_TOMCAT ON

Re: Compiling Servlets

2002-11-02 Thread Andreas Probst
On 1 Nov 2002 at 14:54, Ben Austin wrote: What software would you recommend for compiling servlets? Try Jakarta Ant See Application Developer Guide at tomcathome/webapps/tomcat-docs/appdev/index.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe;jakarta.apache.org For

Re: Tomcat and CLASSPATH

2002-11-02 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Chris, you could set your classpath in the tomcat startup script. But this is not recommended. There were messages a few days ago explaining this. Besides, it might not always be desirable that Tomcat knows when classes change... Andreas On 2 Nov 2002 at 7:52, Chris gokey wrote: Under

Re: Where to put Java files/classes

2002-10-27 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Ryan, you shouldn't have your source files mixed up with Tomcat. You should rather develop somewhere else and use a build tool like Jakarta Ant to deploy your app to Tomcat. Craig's App Developer Guide at tomcathome/webapps/tomcat-docs/appdev/index.html gives a very good introduction into

Re: Thank ?????

2002-10-25 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Fernando, On 24 Oct 2002 at 19:51, Correo wrote: can one web-server run on windows 98 ? Yes, but I wouldn't recommend this as Win98 is too instable. Where I download web server ? Tomcat as application server: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat Apache as web server: maybe

Re: Help with log4j and log4j.propereties under Tomcat 4.1.2

2002-10-24 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi CC, I also wanted to have them in WEB-INF. The following code works for me (TC 4.0.4). You can even rename the log4j.properties to whatever you want. This solution is supposed to work in not expanded wars, too. InputStream log4jPropsIn =

Re: Is there any way to read the response headers in a filter in Tomcat 4.0.3 ?

2002-10-21 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, you could extend HttpServletResponseWrapper. You overwrite all methods which you are interested in, save the values and call the super method, so the underlying HttpServletResponse knows them. Additionally you write getter methods, which return the set values. Example: public class

Re: Is there any way to read the response headers in a filter in Tomcat 4.0.3 ?

2002-10-21 Thread Andreas Probst
Forgot one thing. See intermixed. On 21 Oct 2002 at 12:40, Andreas Probst wrote: Hi, you could extend HttpServletResponseWrapper. You overwrite all methods which you are interested in, save the values and call the super method, so the underlying HttpServletResponse knows them

Re: How to get a message shown immediately by the browser?

2002-10-18 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Zsolt, there was a message from Craig R. McClanahan on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:48 PM. He wrote: ... * You are opening an HTML element like table or p and not closing it before the flush, and writing to a browser that does not incrementally render (like Netscape 4.x). ...

Re: jakarta slide question.

2002-10-08 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Bryan, better ask at Slide Users Mailing List slide- [EMAIL PROTECTED]. /files is specified in Domain.xml, see filespath/files/filespath. Files can be found in the folder specified in contentstore classname=slidestore.reference.FileContentStore parameter

Re: How to specify the location of a properties file.

2002-10-08 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Mehdi, I have my properties file in /WEB-INF. Eclipse doesn't delete it there. I access it with InputStream propsIn = servletContext.getResourceAsStream(/WEB- INF/dms.properties); props.load(propsIn); As far as I know this also works when the web-app ist deployed as a war without

Re: How to specify the location of a properties file.

2002-10-08 Thread Andreas Probst
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RE: How to specify the location of a properties file.

2002-10-08 Thread Andreas Probst
= sc.getRealPath(/); Donie -Original Message- From: Andreas Probst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 October 2002 16:31 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to specify the location of a properties file. Hi Mehdi, you could get the resource stream from within

Re: Configuring Tomcat to start with different verisons of a Web App

2002-10-07 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Scott, you could simply have 3 Tomcats, e.g. .../tomcat1, .../tomcat2, .../tomcat3. All you need is to have 3 icons linked to the right startup script. If you run only one at a time it will work fine. Andreas On 7 Oct 2002 at 14:51, Scott Goldstein wrote: At any one time, I have

Re: Tomcat Problem

2002-10-05 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Uma, it seems you installed Tomcat as a service. You could deinstall this service or set it to manual start. Then you should be able to start Tomcat manually from the script. On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:30:50 -0500 there was a message from Jacob Kjome (Subject: Re: Need Help ASAP w. Tomcat

Re: JAVA SOAP Discussion List

2002-10-03 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Alphonsus, if you prefer reading old messages in your email client, you can get old threads be sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will give you all messages with the same subject as message 12345. The difficulty here is to obtain the right message number. I observed that the

Re: The right path; in more way than one.

2002-09-30 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Ed, I'm not sure, what your question is. Let me try to answer like this: Tomcat will look for class files and jars in the various classes and libs directories. Read pathto/tomcat-doc/class- loader-howto.html to know exactly. You can have your application's directory anywhere, if you

Re: URGENT sign java applet

2002-09-26 Thread Andreas Probst
how to sign java applet read pathTo/j2sdk1.4.0/docs/guide/security/SecurityToolsSummary.html Summary: - Put classes into jar - sign jar Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to write a servlet that handle request for .xml documents

2002-09-26 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, I have setup the web.xml to direct request to .xml to my servlet However, I do not know how to write the servlet inorder to have it perform jobs I want it to do. Anyone know of any guides on writing it or know how to write it? Thanks in advance. The sun site has a tutorial. Search

Re: Security question

2002-09-23 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi David, if it weren't Apache I would say: try HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal().getName(). Maybe it could be that this also works with Apache... Andreas I'm trying to retrieve the userid that logged into apache and accessed the current JSP page. How can I get this info?

Getting Login name and password

2002-09-22 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi all, I know there is a way to get the user name by calling HttpServletRequest.getUserPrincipal().getName(). I also need the password. How can this be achieved? Thanks in advance. Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL

Context path

2002-09-19 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi all, I need to know the context path of my web app. If I have a HttpServletRequest req, I can get String contextPath = req.getContextPath(); Now, what can I do within init()? I havn't got a HttpServletRequest there. How do I get the context path? Thanks in advance. Andreas -- To

Re: basic question

2002-09-17 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi all! If you have a HttpServletRequest req, you can get String contextPath = req.getContextPath(); This would give you /myapp. My question is: How can I get to know the context path in init(), where I don't have a HttpServletRequest? have you tried using getServletContext() or

RE: Tomcat 'out of environment space' message

2002-09-11 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Samantha, up to Win98 Windows loads c:\autoexec.bat during startup. No other autexec.bat is read. You can have more than one, but only the one in c:\ is processed. To run Tomcat you don't need the classpath variable as far as I know. As long as you don't need it for other purposes don't

RE: Tomcat 3.1.* config problem

2002-09-09 Thread Andreas Probst
Thanks Tony ... I'll try this later as I haven't got it installed at my machine at work more worrying I think is how to set up the JAVA_HOME variable any ideas as to where I can locate more detailed info would be much appreciated ... For the out-of-memory you can simply add the

Re: web-inf/classes and eclipse

2002-08-20 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi Michenaud, using Ant together with Eclipse might be an option. You can run Ant from inside Eclipse by right-clicking the build.xml file and choosing the right operation (I now don't know how it is called). Andreas Hi, I use the editor Eclipse but when i launch Rebuild all, it deletes

RE: web-inf/classes and eclipse

2002-08-20 Thread Andreas Probst
think i will use ant.. But what about adding WEB-INF/config to the CLASSPATH ? How can i do that automatically for all tomcat projects ? -Message d'origine- De : Andreas Probst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 20 août 2002 09:37 À : Tomcat Users List Objet : Re: web-inf

Re: NotSerializableException

2002-08-20 Thread Andreas Probst
Obviously it does serialization. It loads a session from persistent storage. Serialization is a means to make objects persistent. Having written that I must confess I don't know about sessions in Tomcat... I am not asking tomcat to serialize my app, nor do I have any serialization in this

Re: Login-Password http://localhost/manager ????? Please help me....

2002-07-25 Thread Andreas Probst
Hi, look at http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/manager-howto.html. There it says You can add the manager role to the comma-delimited roles attriute for one or more existing users, and/or create new users with that assigned role. So just add ,manager to one of those users. Then you can use this

RE: newbie - finding class files

2002-07-16 Thread Andreas Probst
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Andreas Probst wrote: Hi all, does Tomcat really look into tomcatdir/server/lib? For me it seems Tomcat doesn't. This directory is only visible to the classloader for Tomcat itself, not for webapps. There is a special rule that makes servlet classes

RE: newbie - finding class files

2002-07-15 Thread Andreas Probst
. Andreas Probst Brian, Tomcat looks for your classes under Tomcatdir/webapps/yourapp/WEB-INF/classes and Tomcatdir/common/classes and looks for your jars in Tomcatdir/webapps/yourapp/WEB-INF/lib , Tomcatdir/common/lib (and Tomcatdir/server/lib but you shouldn't put your stuff in here) Andy