Hi, yeah, that doesn't surprise me... the reason that tomcat 4 ignores your classpath is that it causes all sorts of problems. seriously, the spec outlines how things are suppose to happen, and my best advice would be to put your servlets in web-inf/classes (or lib).
alternatively, you'd need to have a good explanation from someone who fully understands the class loading mechanism of catalina... I could take a few guesses, but wont. I also think that someone who does fully understand it will simply repeat the above advice.... so, cd /myservletclasses; jar cf myservlets.jar * (o: cheers dim On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Firestar wrote: > Hi Dmitri, thanks for your quick reply. > > I have tried adding the classpath to my servlets to > catalina.bat, but it throw a javax.http.servlet class > not found exception. It will works OK if i do not add > in the classpath. > > Regards, > Firestar > > > > Is this possible in TC? I know in JRun it is > > possible > > > to do so by specifying the classpath to my > > servlets in > > > the configuration file. > > Anything's possible.... the simplest way is to > > change the catalina.sh to > > include your classpath, but this is plain _wrong_, > > what you would be > > better off doing is changing your build/deploy > > process so that you have a > > properly structured webapp. > > > > for more info check out > > http://java.sun.com/products/servlets > > > > cheers > > dim > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. > http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 >
