Dear Mathew, Thanks for the link.
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html I am afraid I dont understand the paragraph below, regarding the class patterns "In addition, for the following class patterns, the classloader will always delegate first (and load the class itself if no parent classloader loads it)" ============================================================================ ===================================== As mentioned above, the web application class loader diverges from the default Java 2 delegation model (in accordance with the recommendations in the Servlet Specification, version 2.3, section 9.7.2 Web Application Classloader). When a request to load a class from the web application's WebappX class loader is processed, this class loader will look in the local repositories first, instead of delegating before looking. There are exceptions. Classes which are part of the JRE base classes cannot be overriden. For some classes (such as the XML parser components in JDK 1.4+), the JDK 1.4 endorsed feature can be used (see the common classloader definition above). In addition, for the following class patterns, the classloader will always delegate first (and load the class itself if no parent classloader loads it): javax.* org.xml.sax.* org.w3c.dom.* org.apache.xerces.* org.apache.xalan.* ============================================================================ ===================================== Can I put the above class pattern in my WEB-INF/lib path or not ? regards Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
