absolutely correct :) Filip
-----Original Message----- From: shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:40 PM To: Tomcat Developers List Subject: RE: class loading issue/bug 4.1.17 So this is something that can not be changed and either we have to 1) include the class in distributions (outside the jar) for placement in common/classes or 2) store and retrieve bytes and marshal it in a servlet Correct? On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 10:28, Filip Hanik wrote: > The problem you are experiencing is a fundamental issue on how classloaders >hierarchy works when using servlet container. documented here > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html > > > Filip > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:08 PM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: RE: class loading issue/bug 4.1.17 > > > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:42, Filip Hanik wrote: > > 1. you could also move the mysql.jar into your WEB-INF/lib and you should resove >the same problem too. > > > >From Tomcat docs on DBCP > > These jar files along with your the jar file for your JDBC driver should > be installed in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. > > NOTE: Do not install these jarfiles in your /WEB-INF/lib, or > $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext, or anywhere else. You will experience > problems if you install them anyplace other than > $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. > > > 2. You could just get the bytes (instead of getObject) store/retrieve bytes and do >the marshalling in your servlet code. > > > > > Fine but if this is a limitation of Tomcat, shouldn't it be documented? > Maybe even in the section on DBCP...one side of effect of this > requirement is that... > > (As you may know as is sometimes the case in OpenSource, Junior > developers have a tough time getting Sr ones to do things differently > without sufficient justification...) > > I do greatly appreciate the response and apologize for being fiesty this > morning. This in no way should be interpreted as any form of complaint. > > > Shawn > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]