Hi all, I posted a similar question a couple days ago but it seems the well-intended responses I received were incorrect.
And let me first say that I have RTFMs -- more than once -- and this *SHOULD* work, at least according to TFMs. I'm using TC v5.0.9 on Linux with J2SE 1.4.2_01. Very simply, I have a Jar with some custom classes in $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib/. These classes are not being found in my web application. Instead, I get a NoClassDefFoundError. If I move the Jar to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/, the classes are found with no problem. Somebody, please, just do what I described above and tell me if you can get classes to load from a jar in $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib. According to the Tomcat docs, Jar files in $CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib/ *SHOULD BE AVAILABLE* to a web app. See the TC documentation at: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html I'm wondering if the TC docs are once again in error.... Thanks very much.....sincerely. Tony ------------------------------------- <side-note> Finally, for the sake of completeness, I'd like to correct something someone said in response to my previous post. A NoClassDefFoundError does *NOT* mean the class was found. It means the class was *NOT* found, as does ClassNotFoundException. The difference between these two errors has to do with the mechanism by which the class load operation was initiated. ClassNotFoundException is thrown when a class cannot be found and the programmer tried to load the class *explicitly* using Class.forName() or a ClassLoader method. For example: Class c = Class.forName("MyClass"); NoClassDefFoundError is thrown when a class cannot be found and the programmer tried to load the class *implicitly* by referring to the class name. For example: MyClass x = new MyClass(); Both exceptions mean the class cannot be found. I am assuming that when Tomcat throws one of these two errors it is following the usage guidelines laid out in the javadocs for these errors. </side-note> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
