On 26/05/2015 10:44, Aditya Chopra wrote: > Thanks for quick response Mark. > > JARs in /mylib are not dependent on JARs in web app. In fact its the other > way round. /mylib is having all Spring, hibernate jar’s, other common libs > and WEB-INF/lib is containing jar of one of my application modules. > The class for which i am getting ClassNotFoundException exception is part of > JAR present under WEB-INF/lib. > > I enabled the class loader logs and don’t see that class getting loaded on > server startup. However, when i copy all JAR’s from /mylib to WEB-INF/lib, > that class is getting loaded and i don’t get the ClassNotFoundException on > runtime. > > Any thoughts what might be causing this?
Yes. One of the JARs in /mylib depends on one of the JARs in WEB-INF/lib and that is not permitted. The dependency may not be obvious. If you provide the full stack trace we might be able to provide you with some pointers. Mark > > Aditya > >> On 26-May-2015, at 3:04 pm, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> On 26/05/2015 08:36, Aditya Chopra wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> To reduce the size of my war file, i am trying to put all the jar files >>> being used by my web app in a separate folder /mylibs. I added path to >>> /mylibs folder under shared.loader property in catalina.properties but on >>> runtime i am getting a ClassNotFoundException for one of the classes that >>> is present in one the project module jar under WEB-INF/lib folder. >>> >>> When i add all the libraries required by my project in WEB-INF/lib folder >>> my application works fine. However, when i put the libraries in a separate >>> /mylibs folder i get a ClassNotFoundException on runtime. >>> >>> I suspect that it could be due to order in which the classes are being >>> loaded, so added a Loader component in my context.xml as below, but that >>> too didn’t work. Can someone please help me on this? >> >> JARs in /mylibs must not depend on JARs in a web application. There is >> no configuration option that would enable you to bypass this restriction. >> >> Mark >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
