One of the requirements imposed upon me is that I can't disturb the existing directory structure. I can't rename or move any directories (or their contents).
Our third-party Java classes are in:
c:\myapp\foreign
Our application and development Java classes are in:
c:\myapp\native
The root directory of the web server is:
c:\myapp\native\web
I created the following Context in server.xml:
<Context path="/tomcat" docBase="c:/myapp/native/web" debug="0"/>
Then I created the servlet deployment file:
c:\myapp\native\web\WEB-INF\web.xml
The contents of said file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";><web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.myapp.servlet.BootStrap</servlet-class>
</servlet> <servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/myapp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping></web-app>
So now I'm all set to go, except that I'm going to (and did) get a "class not found" error because there is no "/classes" directory under "WEB-INF" and as mentioned above I can't copy the classes from "/foreign" and "/native" there.
I can't create a symbolic link from "/classes" to "/native" since that would be recursive, and it wouldn't include "/foreign" which is also required.
The "/native" and "/foreign" directories are in the CLASSPATH environment variable, but as documented in "Class Loader HOW-TO" that variable is ignored by the class loaders.
It would seem to me that the easiest and most straight-forward solution is to get the class loaders to honor the CLASSPATH environment variable. I tried to accomplish this by hacking the start-up scripts, but could not get it to work.
What's the best way to get the class loader to look in "/native" and "/foreign"? Or is there a better solution (other than shuffling the directories around, which I can't do). Thanks a million!
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