Hi Boris, I tried keeping into shared/lib of that particular application. But it reflects the same error again. My requirement of putting these two jars in shared/lib or common/lib is because i need to use them for other 20 more applications. Hence, it would be more convenient to keep one copy and access by multiple applications rather copying them to every application's WEB-INF/lib.
Kindly, suggest some solution for this. Thanks, Nehal -----Original Message----- From: Boris Unckel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 5:12 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: unable to load classes Hello Nehal, > I have 2 of my application specific jarfiles which need to be used by all > other applications too in tomcat 5.5.9 on linux. Hence, i am placing both > the jarfiles into common/lib of tomcat binary and linking them into > shared/lib of application which use them. > > But, unfortunately, i get Null Pointer Exception. And my jarfiles or say > classes are not getting loaded. > > If i put those jarfiles into application's WEB-INF/lib, it works fine. > > One of my jar contains servlet API in it. > > What could be the possible reason of failing the class loading from > common/lib path? Have a look at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html If you have placed a jar in commons/lib, it is not needed to put them into sharded. I recommend to use shared/libs for your webapps only. Or even better, do not use any shared directory if there is no special reason for. A webapp is an independent application and WEB-INF/lib is the just made for libs needed by this application. Regards Boris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
