I had this same problem when putting crimson.jar and jaxp.jar from my own
JAXP 1.1 installation. I solved it by using the crimson.jar and jaxp.jar
from the %CATALINA%/jasper subdir.
Sure looks the same like WIndows DLL hell to me.... ;-)
Marcel Mare
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> Onderwerp: Re: Tomcat 4.0b7 and struts-example webapp
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> So the problem was that the Struts example wouldn't load in Tomcat4.0 B7
> because it didn't have a parser or the jaxp.jar. Someone
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> a parser and jaxp.jar in the CATALINA_HOME/lib directory. This worked for
> me. But a post from the tomcat list suggested putting them in the
> web-inf/lib directory. Indeed this latter method should work and seems a
> better solution to me:
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> Craig McClanahan posts:
> the order in which Tomcat 4 looks for classes to load.
> - /WEB-INF/classes
> - /WEB-INF/lib (undefined order of JAR files)
> - $CATALINA_HOME/classes
> - $CATALINA_HOME/lib (undefined order of JAR files)
> - $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes
> - $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib (undefined order of JAR files)
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> So I put crimson.jar & JAXP in the WEB-INF/lib directory. It's
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> properly, it throws a sealing violation. The classloader isn't having it.
> Not sure why this is happening. Anyone?
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> 08/31/2001 03:05 Subject: Re:
> Tomcat 4.0b7 and struts-example webapp
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> This is more a question for the Tomcat list, but since it came up below,
> what is the best practice for including needed libraries and
> implementations (such as crimson.jar & jaxp.jar) in Catalina? While Ian's
> suggestion below moves these from /jasper to /lib, I found the struts
> example also works in B7 by putting jaxp and crimson in /common/lib and
> leaving them in jasper. Can someone point me to where I can discern the
> differences between the different lib directories in Catalina?
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> This has no doubt come up before, sorry for repetition.
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