Re: Need access to classes outside Tomcat for JSPs

[Parsons Technical Services]

Just a curious question to this, I know Dan has his setup already but is 
there any reason that this could not be set up the other way around? I mean 
that the classes/jars are in the normal spot in Tomcat and the outside app 
accesses them there. The outside app shouldn't care where the files reside 
as long as the path to them is known and this way Tomcat is a untouched 
normal install.

Or am I missing something here? I am just trying to learn.
Thanks
Doug
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: Need access to classes outside Tomcat for JSPs


If you happen to change the bootstrap classpath - please do not email the 
list with ClassNotFound issues. ;)

If you really need to access jar's or classes outside of your webapp you 
can either:
1) Write your own WebAppClassloader - icky but doable
2) Change $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.properties and change either the 
common or shared loader. This is more managable but all webapps will share 
these classes.

Adding your own classes to the system classpath will cause major 
headaches. Adding common libraries to the common or shared classloader 
typically is the least of all evils when you can't place classes inside 
WEB-INF.

-Tim
Dan wrote:
Just as soon as I hit send....
Registry entry.
HKLM | Software | Apache Software Foundation | Procrun 2.0 | Tomcat5 | 
Parameters | Java

Classpath = 
.;e:\java\library\basic;e:\java\library\custom;E:\java\Tomcat\bin\bootstrap.jar
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