mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Ludwig
What is special about mail.jar (and activation.jar) that requires putting them into the common.loader? Quote from the Tomcat docs: Unpackage the distribution(s) and place mail.jar (and activation.jar if required) into $CATALINA_HOME/lib so the JAR(s) is(are) available to Tomcat during the

Re: mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:52:04 +0100, Michael Ludwig mil...@gmx.de wrote: What is special about mail.jar (and activation.jar) that requires putting them into the common.loader? Any objects you want have access to via JNDI, have to be accessible by tomcat in order to create them. That means

Re: mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Ronald Klop
For the record: JAF (activation.jar) is already in Java 6 (and that sucks :-)). Op woensdag, 26 januari 2011 11:52 schreef Michael Ludwig mil...@gmx.de: What is special about mail.jar (and activation.jar) that requires putting them into the common.loader? Quote from the Tomcat docs:

Re: mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Ludwig
Ronald Klop schrieb am 26.01.2011 um 12:08 (+0100): For the record: JAF (activation.jar) is already in Java 6 (and that sucks :-)). It might (I don't know). Mail.jar, however, isn't in Java 6 SE. And from the discussion on the Ant list it appeared that there was something special about this

Re: mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Ludwig
Mikolaj Rydzewski schrieb am 26.01.2011 um 12:07 (+0100): On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:52:04 +0100, Michael Ludwig mil...@gmx.de wrote: What is special about mail.jar (and activation.jar) that requires putting them into the common.loader? Any objects you want have access to via JNDI, have to be

Re: mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:24:58 +0100, Michael Ludwig mil...@gmx.de wrote: Mikolaj Rydzewski schrieb am 26.01.2011 um 12:07 (+0100): On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:52:04 +0100, Michael Ludwig mil...@gmx.de wrote: What is special about mail.jar (and activation.jar) that requires putting them into the

Re: mail.jar, activation.jar and classloading

2011-01-26 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2011/1/26 Michael Ludwig mil...@gmx.de: What is special about mail.jar (and activation.jar) that requires putting them into the common.loader? Quote from the Tomcat docs:  Unpackage the distribution(s) and place mail.jar (and activation.jar  if required) into $CATALINA_HOME/lib so the