Yes, but as Craig pointed out in a correction
to an earlier email of mine, what tomcat
does when starting a context is not
to manipulate the classpath, but to
create & manipulate a ClassLoader.
Changes to the path used by the
ClassLoader will not be visible in
the CLASSPATH system property.
Therefore, the classes in WEB-INF/classes,
and all the jars in WEB-INF/lib will be
accessable via the ClassLoader, but
those directories/libs will not be
in the CLASSPATH.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Haines [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 6:25 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: WEB-INF/lib
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> Here is how to get your CLASSPATH at runtime:
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> String classPath = System.getProperty( "java.class.path" );
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 7:15 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: WEB-INF/lib
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>
> I am doing everything according to the docs and sun spec. But the classes
> in the jar file are unavailable. Is there a servlet variable I can check
> at runtime to display my classpath?
>
> Thanks,
> Ted.
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>
>
> Kitching Simon
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> 10/25/2000 03:33 Subject: RE: WEB-INF/lib
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> Hi Ted,
>
> This functionality works fine in tomcat3.1.
> I (and many others on this email list) use
> this without problems. I am sure that tomcat3.2
> also does this, as this behaviour is defined in
> sun's servlet specification.
>
> The files should be in application/WEB-INF/lib.
> Tomcat *does* add these to its classpath
> automatically.
>
> Note that only ".jar" files will be added; files
> with the suffix ".zip" get ignored. And don't
> forget that if you're using unix, then case
> is important..
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 9:17 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: WEB-INF/lib
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to put my JDBC jar file in the application/WEB-INF/lib
> > directory but Tomcat doesn't add the jar file to its classpath
> > automatically. Is there a config parameter in one of the xml files to
> do
> > this? Also the default "build" script for NT machines says to put the
> > jars
> > in application/lib instead of application/WEB-INF/lib. I tried it both
> > ways and it doesn't work. I am restarting the server after ant copies
> the
> > files to the appropriate directories.
> >
> > If I add the jar file to the CLASSPATH in the script to start the tomcat
> > server it works, but I thought it was supposed to happen automatically.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ted.
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