Classloader question

2007-07-17 Thread Juan Ignacio Garzón
Hi, I'm working with Tomcat 4.1. I have a library that has to be shared between all the applications, but it has singletons that should have one instance per application. In a normal situation, each application could have the .jar in it's WEB-INF/lib directory, but there is a requirement saying

Classloader question

2007-07-17 Thread Juan Ignacio Garzón
Hi, I'm working with Tomcat 4.1. I have a library that has to be shared between all the applications, but it has singletons that should have one instance per application. In a normal situation, each application could have the .jar in it's WEB-INF/lib directory, but there is a requirement saying

RE: Classloader Question

2006-10-11 Thread Fran Varin
change it to use catalina.home instead of catalina.base, or add an additional path. Cheers, Larry -Original Message- From: Fran Varin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:49 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Classloader Question We are running

Classloader Question

2006-10-10 Thread Fran Varin
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RE: Classloader Question

2006-10-10 Thread King, Patrick
Canada 615 Booth St. Room 650 Ottawa, Ontario K1A0E9 Phone: 613-947-0463 E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Fran Varin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 10, 2006 12:49 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Classloader Question We are running multiple Tomcat

RE: Classloader Question

2006-10-10 Thread Huy Vo \(hvo\)
- From: King, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:32 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Classloader Question A possible solution would be to use the analog of a unix file link for windows based operating systems. One tomcat distribution would have the actual

RE: Classloader Question

2006-10-10 Thread Larry Isaacs
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:49 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Classloader Question We are running multiple Tomcat 5.5 instances as Windows services. We have some .jar files that are common between the multiple Tomcat instances. We have been searching

Re: Classloader Question

2006-10-10 Thread Fran Varin
with the intent of sharing them with multiple running instances of Tomcat and each one's associated application? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-Question-tf2417987.html#a6743489 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Fran Varin
in the shared jars folder. If Tomcat does not have a similar facility as mentioned regarding WebSphere, what is considered to be the best practices approach as far as Tomcat is concerned? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3570566 Sent from

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Boris Unckel
Hello, Von: Fran Varin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, quite correct on your statement regarding using Application as the definition. The essence of what we are looking for is a similar behavior with Tomcat. Our over arching goal is to minimize or eliminate the need to have jars that are to be shared

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Boris Unckel
Hello Dave, Von: David Kerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] I understand the arguments on both sides, but tend to prefer the ease of maintenance of what you call the single point of change in shared/lib. Is it possible to make this configurable, so both sides can be happy? Or is that too complex? As

RE: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Boris Unckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Classloader question To the mailing-list: If you have an library which has not the explicit recommendation to put it in common/shared lib path (i.E. a special JDBC driver where the vendor recommends one to put it into shared) what

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread David Smith
Boris Unckel wrote: Hello, Von: Fran Varin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, quite correct on your statement regarding using Application as the definition. The essence of what we are looking for is a similar behavior with Tomcat. Our over arching goal is to minimize or eliminate the need to have jars

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Boris Unckel
Hi, Von: Fran Varin [EMAIL PROTECTED] This approach sounds promising...would you mind elaborating just a little on what you're thinking? I'm not sure I follow when you mention using a symbolic link into WEB-INF/lib. it would require UNIX or LINUX system. A simple symbolic link: ln -s

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Fran Varin
aah...now I understand the reason it sounded foreign to me. We are a Windows shop so, I'm not sure we have the same capability. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3573581 Sent from the Tomcat - User forum at Nabble.com

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Mike Sabroff
SHORTCUT! Fran Varin wrote: aah...now I understand the reason it sounded foreign to me. We are a Windows shop so, I'm not sure we have the same capability. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3573581 Sent from the Tomcat - User forum

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Fran Varin
...as in Windows shortcut...I'll have to look into that possibility. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3573968 Sent from the Tomcat - User forum at Nabble.com

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Mike Sabroff
Varin wrote: ...as in Windows shortcut...I'll have to look into that possibility. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3573968 Sent from the Tomcat - User forum at Nabble.com

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Fran Varin
somewhere where all the apps could have access in the manner I've described. There is a good reason why app servers like WAS allow this...it makes maintenance and deployment much easier. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3575029 Sent from

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Reinhard Moosauer
changes to each WAR. In our situation, we would not be distributing the WARs across running server instances...the application is self-contained and runs as a unit anyway. It's packaged software that requires customization. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Fran Varin
ANT for our builds and such but, the point is to try and simplify the implementation as much as possible. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Classloader-question-t1332679.html#a3576644 Sent from the Tomcat - User forum at Nabble.com

Re: Classloader question

2006-03-24 Thread Boris Unckel
Hello, Fran Varin wrote: The beauty of our WAS solution is that we can hot deploy various pieces like the jars without having to do anything with the WARs and since we do not have the jars contained in each WAR it makes maintenance much simpler. Depending on the application, this approach makes