2ND TRY: Developing ASP applications with tomcat

[Giovanni Cuccu]

Hi all,
I'm developing an application which will be release in ASP(application service provider) mode, i.e. different customers will use the same appserver and database to do their actions.
On the DB I'm already ok, but on the appserver I'm in trouble. The first model I'm trying to implement is one application server instance with different contexts, one for each customer. What I'd like to do is deploy the jsp under each customer context, but deploy the servlets and business objects to the shared\lib directory since they are always the same. the problem I'm facing is classloaders sequence, since in the shared\lib I have a class which loads a configuration file using the classloader(it is a 3rdy part library and I cannot modify it), but the configuration file is under WEB-INF since is specific for each customer.
If I try to put all the classes under WEB-INF I got a ClassCastException when loading a class form a context and this class is already loaded from another context. I read the classloader howto in order to understand how classes are loaded and if I have well understood the document there is no way to achieve what I want.
Can anyone help me?
I've already set up multiple tomcat instances using different CATALINA_BASE, but that's not what I want in this phase of the project.
thanks in advance
Giovanni


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Giovanni Cuccu
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