On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:36:12 -0500
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> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Documentation - Class Loader Info
>
>
> All,
>
> My apologies if this email is not appropriate for this list. While going
> through the documentation for configuring Tomcat 4.0.1, I came across a couple
> of discrepancies:
>
> In the document for "Class Loader Info", I noticed that under Class Loader
> Definitions - System section mentions the CLASSPATH environment variable is
> initialized using two jars, namely $CATALINA_HOME/lib/bootstrap.jar and
> $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar. On the standard installation of Tomcat 4.0.1, the
> bootstrap.jar file is present in the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory rather than
> the $CATALINA_HOME/lib directory.
>
> I presume this was probably an oversight. If this was not the case then perhaps
> do we need to copy the file from the $CATALINA_HOME/bin directory to the
> $CATALINA_HOME/lib directory.
>
Nope ... that is typo in the docs. The files are in the right place.
>
> The other is also in the same document in the section discussing the order in
> which the class or resource loader looks for the various classes.
> $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes or $CATALINA_HOME/common do not contain any jar
> files, but the jars are present in $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. I was wondering
> if we need to copy all the files from the $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib directory to
> either the $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes directory or to the
> $CATALINA_HOME/common directory.
>
That's another typo -- that entry should really be:
$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib/*.jar
> I found this out when I was trying to compile the "HelloWorld" servlet example
> and kept on getting the "class not found error" again and again.
>
> Any pointers on this will be helpful.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Samarth
>
I will check in the documentation fixes today. Thanks!
Craig
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