Glenn, just out of curiosity, how could someone create an "administrative"
web-app for controlling and administering Tomcat? (One of the things I've
been toying with was the idea of doing just such an "administrative"
interface--installing new webapps, restarting, viewing statistics,
monitoring the server's progress, and so on.)
Ted Neward
{.NET||Java} Instructor, DevelopMentor (http://www.develop.com)
http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward/index.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Glenn Nielsen
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: problems running a servlet that uses core catalina classes
>
>
> In Tomcat 4 the "core" catalina classes in
> servlet/lib/catalina.jar are hidden
> from servlets. A servlet should use the standard Servlet 2.3 classes to
> access public information for the request. Your servlet would
> not be portable
> across differenct servlet containers if you used internal servlet
> container classes.
>
> In addition, making those interal tomcat classes visible to web
> applications
> could allow the security of the servlet container and web
> applications to be compromised.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn
>
> Fabien Le Floc'h wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am sorry to bother you. But I am trying to write a servlet
> that uses some core apache classes and I have problems running it.
> >
> > - If I use a war archive, tomcat does not find the tomcat
> classes/servlet classes when it starts the servlet.
> (ClassNoDefFound error). If I then add the catalina.jar and
> servlet.jar to the classpath, I have a conflict between classes
> loaded dynamically by tomcat and classes in the classpath. (More
> precisely I have an object whose class is ServletWrapper but is
> not an instance of ServletWrapper. This is because (I guess) the
> object is created by the Tomcat classloader and it is compared
> with an instance of the classpath objects),
> >
> > - If I put the jar file in the common/lib directory, it finds
> the servlet classes but not the tomcat classes.
> >
> > - If I put the jar file in server/lib directory, it does not
> load my servlet.
> >
> > The only way I can make it work is to put it in the
> catalina.jar file. But that is not nice at all.
> >
> > Could someone help me with this?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Fabien Le Floc'h
> >
> > P.S.: I was wondering if it was user or developer oriented...
> As I want to use core Tomcat classes I thought it was developer
> but maybe I am wrong. Then I apologize.
>
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