I have just started using Tomcat 4 for the first time (have used Tomcat 3.x for
a while) and I see that startup.sh does not access the user's CLASSPATH.  I
think that's great!  CLASSPATH dependencies can get unwieldy.

I have placed the file SilverRuntime.jar in my webapp's WEB-INF/lib directory.
An examination of this file with jar reveals that it contains the class
com.sssw.rt.util.AgiUserLogin:

     $ jar tf SilverRuntime.zip | grep com/sssw/rt/util/AgiUserLogin
     com/sssw/rt/util/AgiUserLogin.class

However, when I run my webapp, I get:

     exception

     javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
      at
     
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)

      at
     
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)

      at
     
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243)

     ...

with a root cause of:

     java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sssw/rt/util/AgiUserLogin
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509)
      at
     java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)

      at
     
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1547)

      at
     org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:856)

      at
     
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1286)

      at
     
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1169)

      at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:187)
      at java.beans.Beans.instantiate(Beans.java:48)
      at
     com.ams.acq.pd.base.web.CommandFactory.getCommandInstance(CommandFactory.java:259)

Why doesn't my web app find a class which is in a jar in my WEB-INF/lib
directory?

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