Howdy,
Don't DLLs usually end in .dll, rather than .jar?  So they won't get
loaded even if you put them in shared/lib (or any of tomcat's other lib
directories), as tomcat only looks for .jar files.

Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivan Montoro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:44 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Using Sun JAI with Tomcat
>
>Hi everybody,
>
>I've read tons of questions about CLASSPATH and
>CATALINA_OPTS ways to add classes to Tomcat's env and
>why this should be avoided. Our app requires some
>graphics manipulation, and I've read good comments
>about Sun's "Java Advanced Imaging API".
>
>This is one of the trickiest packages I've ever seen,
>as it does not require X to be installed and running
>in order to make awt manipulations, but it uses some
>DLL/SO files for Solaris (sparc/i386), Linux and
>Windows. DLL's in Unix platforms have the same name,
>so I cannot just put both them in the same directory
>(say CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib/)
>
>So I would rather prefer to have both versions in
>different subdirectories and append one or another to
>classpath/classloader depending on `uname -o/i/p`. Say
>CATALINA_HOME/shared/lib/sun.jai-1.1.2-<OS>-<arch>/lib/
>
>How do I do that? I'm in the correct path? Does
>anybody know why multiplatform is broken with this
>library? Any suggestions on my "start_tomcat.sh"
>script parameters will be realy appreciated.
>
>By now I've set "-Xbootclasspath/a:/path/to/jai/" and
>"LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/jai/" (both exported), but
>it doesn't work...
>
>Thanks!!
>
>Ivan
>
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