Right! Enough of this! I'm confused!
Obviously there is confusion to why tomcat seems to not find classes that are
clearly located in the WEB-INF/classes directory (in package names, or
whatever) or in a jar. This appears to be a bug with the ClassLoad that is in
place, as has been pointed out to me.
I've read about dynamic compilation and class loading problems. Well I've had
no problems with my jsp pages finding classes in jars or the classes
directory.
I don't know why is responsible for this part of tomcat, or whether this is
the right list to post to, but wouldn't it be a good idea for someone who
knows what they are talking about (ie whoever wrote this part of Tomcat!) to
write a mail stating exactly how it should work, and what known problems
there are. If there are known problems, are they being addressed? It's
difficult to tell people (management) that Tomcat is the solution if there is
no gaurantee that this is being looked at. However as I love tomcat and open
source, I'd rather use it than some offering from another company :)
Clearly, if there are classes in the WEB-INF/classes, or within a jar in
WEB-INF/lib, then they should be found from Jsp pages or any object that sits
in the session. My problem, as I've pointed out before, is the ClassLoader
that gets given to a Thread I try and start from a ServletContextListener. Ie
a Thread I start to read news when the web application starts. Classes are
just not found. Oddly enough, if I start this same thread from the top of a
Jsp page - it works fine!
So, would someone like to enlighten us all so we can stop guessing and
confusing the issue. There are just too many mails about this topic now, and
it's hard to work out what the correct answer is.
Cheers
John Baker (still sifting through the many many of posts on this ;-)
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 22:50 pm, you wrote:
> Hmmm.
>
> According to Dr. Mel Martinez on the tomcat-dev list, Jasper *cannot* see
> the web-inf/classes part of your web app for compliation. SO, I guess the
> solution is to pre-compile the JSP's (somehow) and leave the compiled
> .class files in the TOMCAT_HOME/work directory.
>
> Then, we're *screwed* if a customer wants to modify one of the JSP files
> on their server.
>
> Grrr.
>
> Ideas?
>
>
>
> http://w6.metronet.com/~wjm/tomcat/2001/Mar/msg00696.html
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John Baker, BSc CS.
Java developer, Linux lover.
I don't wanna rock, DJ.
