Hi, this is probably an uncommon problem, but maybe someone encountered a similar situation and knows a solution: :)
We have a build environment with a heavy amount of jar files that are too much to copy for test-runs into the app structure (WEB-INF/...). (ok, this is also very inhouse-special, never mind ;) ) When using a plain tomcat environment in the past we take a customized classloader that knows the special locations of the libs and puts the fs paths of them to the classpath. Now we want to switch to geronimo (as the application is to be more jee-ified). I found several options for configuring geronimo's classloader but up to now I found no way for replacing it by an own extension. :( In tomcat I can name an own loader in WEB-INF/ROOT.xml as <Loader className="..."/> but that didn't work in Geronimo (or is it just another file?). I "played around a bit" with the gbean settings in the geronimo-web.xml but without success. Is there a way for replacing/extending the classloader used for my application in Geronimo? Or (ever better) is there a way to get to my jars on their team environment places in the filesystem just by configuration? As I understand, the 'dependency' tags in geronimo-web.xml refers "only" to the libs in the servers's repository. Thank you in advance, Martin
