read this page: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html Also, every page under the 'configuration' and 'administrators' on the left hand side, is of interest to developers as well.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Lawence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:51 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: JavaMail doesn't work > > > Thanks for all the replies! > > Placing the mail.jar and activation.jar under > $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/ solves this problem. But I still > don't understand the cause of the problem Also what is the > searching order of tomcat when it looks for a java class? > > > > Phillip Qin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/mail.jar and activation.jar > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Corrigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: October 7, 2003 7:29 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: JavaMail doesn't work > > I ran into this problem and I think it was related to having > installed multiple versions of Sun's JSDK on the Win2K > machine in question. I resolved it by removing all > installations of Java and Tomcat and then reinstalling. Not > sure what the underlying problem was. My solution was > probably overkill, but it worked :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lawence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:39 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: JavaMail doesn't work > > > Dear all, > > I installed Tomcat4.1.27 on one win2000 and one winXP. I > tried the SendMailServlet that ships with it. The servlet > worked fine on win2000 and it gave the following message on > winXP:java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > javax/mail/Message > > I guess this is because somehow Tomcat can't find the class. > (This is wierd since I do not have the problem on win2000). > So I downloaded the JavaMail and copied the mail.jar and > activation.jar to $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib. But the problem > was still there. > > Any suggestions? Thanks! > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]