What are the error messages you are seeing? Specific information is always helpful. Your classes should work in WEB-INF/classes. If they aren't in a package, and are installed in WEB-INF/classes, then you have something else going on.
How are you referencing these classes in your code? John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:developer@;wexwarez.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:44 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Class Path and New Context > > > I fooled around with the setclasspath.sh to include my default > classpath. Tomcat however doesn't like that too bad it would > have been > convenient. > > I copied the examples context exactly to newcontext/ > I put my jsppages in newcontext/ > I put all my java beans for this context in newcontext/WEB-INF/classes > they aren't in a package so I put them directly in there and compiled > When I run tomcat it still can't find them. So i tried > putting them into > common/classes, same problem. Funny thing is when I put a jar file in > common/lib that contains some other random classes I seem to > be able to > access those fine. > > I believe I have carefully read all the docs and they > indicate that I am > doing this correctly so why doesn't it work? > > > ryan > > On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Turner, John wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:developer@;wexwarez.com] > > > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:24 PM > > > To: Tomcat Users List > > > Subject: Class Path and New Context > > > > > > > > > With some hassles I got tomcat 4.1.12 with apache 1.3x, > java 1.4 on a > > > linux > > > 2.4 kernel box. The examples context works fine and apache > > > seems to be > > > handling all the other stuff fine > > > > > > Questions > > > 1)I am trying to create a new context, what are the bare bones > > > requirements > > > for doing so? Anyone have a breakdown of the necessary tags > > > in web.xml? > > > > Basically, duplicate the tags for the examples. > > > > > > > > 2)In a context if I want to add bunch of class files that > are specific > > > to that context can't I just throw them in > > > /webapps/newcontext/WEB-INF/classes? I tried this and they > > > don't seem to > > > be available i get Symbols Not resolved errors referencing > > > any time I call > > > that class. ??? > > > > Check the ClassLoader HOWTO: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html > > > > > 3)I have a whole bunch of other classes that need to be available to > > tomcat. I have set up a global CLASSPATH variable that points to > > them. Tomcat does not seem to be picking this up. I > > verified that when i > > do an env directly before starting tomcat the CLASSPATH > > variable is set > > and defined properly. What am i screwing up? > > Tomcat ignores the system-level CLASSPATH environment variable and assembles > its own in the startup scripts. Check startup.sh and catalina.sh to see > what it does. Modifying either startup.sh and/or catalina.sh to use your > special classpath is not advised. Read the ClassLoader HOWTO. The > Application Developer's Guide might be a good idea, too. > > John > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
