Hi Al, Can you load classes in the lib directory?
Tell the old peeps hi. Chad -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: app class load problem in 4.1.30 We have a web applicaton which has been on Tomcat for some time. We are very imtimate with Tomcat class loader issues having used tomcat for many years. We use Sun Java 1.4.2_05 on Windows2000. When we moved from 4.0.X to 4.1.30 we found that the classloader in /WEB-INF/classes does not seem to work the same way. We have a servlet-based system. We setup web.xml to load the servlet at startup. (the servlet is com.marketplace.servlet.Marketplaces.class) When you start Tomcat it finds the servlet and loads it (4 ways we know this). When you call the servlet from a browser, tomcat honors the request, finds the servlet, loads it, and executes the proper doPost/doGet methods. BUT, ANY class that the servlet calls which is in any of *our* packages cannot be loaded. We get a ClassDefNotFoundException (and have tried many classes, even a HelloWorld). All our classes are in packages. (com.marketplace.[something]) Tomcat can load, find, and execute our servlet, but cannot find any classes in com.marketplace otherwise. Our class files are in C:\Tomcat_4_1_30\webapps\marketplace\WEB-INF\classes\com\marketplace\... This worked in Tomcat 4.0.X and in a few 3.X versions, but not in 4.1.30. The only odd thing I can think of is that the import commands in our servlet are like this: import com.marketplace.core.*; Could the wildcard on the import statement be causing the problem? If the package names match the directory structure, and the servlet is found, why would tomcat throw a ClassDefNotFoundError on any other class in com.marketplace? Baffled, failing, and confused, Al G --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
