On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:16:10PM -0700, John MccLain wrote:
: I wish to deploy Tomct5.0.28 along with a webapp. I want to be able to
: insure that Tomcat is deployed as a service, uses the standard classpath AND
: 1 more classpath entry. How can I set up the Tomcat windows installer to
: setup Tomcat as a service and include a specific directory on the classpath?
: Do I simply change ...tomcat/bin/service.bat (is that all that the installer
: runs)? if so, then how? I would prefer to not haveto have clients manually
: configuring classpath's for windows services.
Tomcat (and most other web containers) don't use the classpath as set as
an environment variable or on the commandline. They use
1/ the JARs in the webapp's WEB-INF/lib and bare class files in
WEB-INF/classes
2/ some container-specific hierarchy of classloaders, usually in a
chain-of-responsibility pattern. Tomcat uses
{Tomcat install}/common/lib
{Tomcat install}/common/classes
{Tomcat install}/shared/lib
{Tomcat install}/shared/classes
{Tomcat install}/server/lib
{Tomcat install}/server/classes
(though probably not in that order ;)
Long story short: if you use the container's (and the spec's) method of
making classes available, there should be no need to set a classpath.
Make your "one other entry" available in one of the places mentioned
above.
-QM
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