As per recent messages about classloading in the Digester, below is a patch for the Digester... One other possible effect that has not been discussed is that there may be a few environments where Class.forname() would work, but the context classloader loadclass() variant would not, due to security restrictions on obtaining the context classloader. This is a common operation and should not be an issue, but if it is, the could could try the context classloader approach, and simply try the Class.forName approach on any SecurityException caught... PATCH: --- Index: CallMethodRule.java =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/digester/CallMeth odRule.java,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -r1.10 CallMethodRule.java 130c130 < this.paramTypes[i] = Class.forName(paramTypes[i]); --- > this.paramTypes[i] = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(paramTypes[i]); Index: ObjectCreateRule.java =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/digester/ObjectCr eateRule.java,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -r1.3 ObjectCreateRule.java 152c152 < Class clazz = Class.forName(realClassName); --- > Class clazz = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(realClassName); Index: SetNextRule.java =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/digester/SetNextR ule.java,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -r1.4 SetNextRule.java 153c153 < paramTypes[0] = Class.forName(paramType); --- > paramTypes[0] = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(paramType); Index: SetTopRule.java =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvspublic/jakarta-struts/src/share/org/apache/struts/digester/SetTopRu le.java,v retrieving revision 1.5 diff -r1.5 SetTopRule.java 152c152 < paramTypes[0] = Class.forName(paramType); --- > paramTypes[0] = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().loadClass(paramType);
