Apologies for being a clueless newbie, but I've been beating my head on
this for the last week.
I'm setting up a new webapp. It needs to interact with a C++
library. (There are reasons it needs to be in C++. Really there
are.) Since I've never done JSP or JNI before, I figured I'd get a
skeletal application going - all I'm trying to do is have a .jsp page
communicate with a C library. So first I thought I'd better set up a Java
Bean and get my jsp talking to that, and then maybe I can see about talking
to JNI. That first part went great. Since I'd had trouble with it before,
I very carefully verified that recreating my .class file (in
ROOT/WEB-INF/classes) actually modified my bean. I even managed to use
both get and set methods. All was going well.
Then I added the native interface code to the bean:
public native int getInt(int arg);
static {
System.loadLibrary("hello");
}
I'd tested this code in a normal java application, and it worked
fine. When I tried to load the Bean from JSP though, not only did it not
work (I failed to copy the error message, sorry), but it stopped reloading
the class when I recompile it. Restarting Tomcat did not help.
So, first things first -- how do I get Tomcat to see new versions of the class?
After that, anybody have pointers on how to get JSP to talk to JNI?
Thanks in advance
Matthew Lerner
