Hi,
As Ambica suggested, I have tried by setting different properties "common.loader, shared.loader, server.loader" in catalina.properties but no luck. I have tried generating the logs using -Djava.security.debug=all. Will this security (scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/tomcat-coyote.jar <no signer certificates>) cause any problem for class loading while loading the jars? log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/coyote/http11/AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:411) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264) at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.<init>(Connector.java:70) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ConnectorCreateRule.begin(ConnectorCreateRule.java:62) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1178) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1451) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:552) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:603) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:310) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:484) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) ... 37 more jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/bin/bootstrap.jar <no signer certificates>) sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@18b4aac2 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@387c703b ( ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "exitVM") ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\bin\bootstrap.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/jre8/lib/ext/tomcat-juli.jar <no signer certificates>) sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@3ecf72fd <no principals> java.security.Permissions@483bf400 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\jre8\lib\ext\tomcat-juli.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/jre8/lib/ext/tomcat-juli-adapters.jar <no signer certificates>) sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@3ecf72fd <no principals> java.security.Permissions@1fbc7afb ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\jre8\lib\ext\tomcat-juli-adapters.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/jre8/lib/ext/log4j-1.2.16.jar <no signer certificates>) sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@3ecf72fd <no principals> java.security.Permissions@75bd9247 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\jre8\lib\ext\log4j-1.2.16.jar" "read") ) scl: log4j:ERROR Could not find value for key log4j.appender.DEBUG log4j:ERROR Could not instantiate appender named "DEBUG". jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/catalina.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@18eed359 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\catalina.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/tomcat-util-scan.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@50b494a6 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\tomcat-util-scan.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/tomcat-coyote.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@6737fd8f ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\tomcat-coyote.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/tomcat-util.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@5e853265 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\tomcat-util.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/catalina-ha.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@4d3167f4 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\catalina-ha.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/jre8/lib/ext/apache-xercesImpl.jar <no signer certificates>) sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@3ecf72fd <no principals> java.security.Permissions@7a30d1e6 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\jre8\lib\ext\apache-xercesImpl.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/tomcat-api.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@7f1302d6 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\tomcat-api.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/tomcat8.0.33/lib/tomcat-jni.jar <no signer certificates>) java.net.URLClassLoader@520a3426 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@6973bf95 ( ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\tomcat8.0.33\lib\tomcat-jni.jar" "read") ) scl: jar: beginEntry META-INF/MANIFEST.MF jar: done with meta! jar: nothing to verify! scl: getPermissions ProtectionDomain (file:/C:/poc/lib/connect.jar <no signer certificates>) sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@18b4aac2 <no principals> java.security.Permissions@4445629 ( ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "exitVM") ("java.io.FilePermission" "\C:\poc\lib\connect.jar" "read") ) Many thanks in advance. -----Original Message----- From: Sanka, Ambica [mailto:asa...@atpco.net] Sent: 25 May 2016 17:52 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: tomcat8.0.33 classpath/classloader issues You can put in catalina.properties. There is entry with common.loader in catalina.properties under conf folder. Please see below # Note: Values are enclosed in double quotes ("...") in case either the # ${catalina.base} path or the ${catalina.home} path contains a comma. common.loader="${catalina.base}/lib","${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar","${catalina.home}/lib","${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar","${catalina.home}/db2/*.jar","${catalina.home}/mq/*.jar","${catalina.home}/wasejb/*.jar","${catalina.home}/conf","${catalina.home}/properties" Hope this helps. Ambica. -----Original Message----- From: Venkata Reddy P [mailto:venkata.re...@trianz.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:43 AM To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users@tomcat.apache.org>> Subject: RE: tomcat8.0.33 classpath/classloader issues Many thanks Mark. I will give a retry it. Is there a way to set all jars in folder (c:\poc\lib) to classpath on startup? -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:25 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: tomcat8.0.33 classpath/classloader issues On 25/05/2016 06:14, Venkata Reddy P wrote: > Can anyone please help me on this? Don't mess with the classpath. You should (almost) never need to do that. Put shared JARs in Tomcat's lib directory. Mark > > From: Venkata Reddy P > Sent: 24 May 2016 14:44 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: tomcat8.0.33 classpath/classloader issues > > Hi, > > Currently I am migrating my existing tomcat6.0.x to tomcat8.0.33 version. > > > 1) I have deployed four web applications inside webapps folder, all > these 4 web applications use the few common jars which I was (in tomcat6.0.x) > setting as classpath variable in setclasspath.bat as below > rem Adding classpath to existing path. > set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%PROJECT_CP% > > %PROJECT_CP% is set by the list of project jars. This way of > setting classpath is not working in tomcat8.0.33. Is it still valid way of > setting the classpath in tomcat8.0.x? > > > 2) Some unknown reason when I start tomcat8.0.x server by running > <catalina_home>\bin\startup.bat, > > Its unable to load the default tomcat jars from <catalina_home>\lib\ folder > > Do we have any limitation in tomcat8.0.33 version? > > > > In both 1) and 2) cases if I have copy all the required jars to primary roo > class loader <jre8>\ext\lib folder, then it is loading all the jars as > expected. The way of loading through the jre folder is not good practice in > my project to separate the jars. > > > > Could you please help why default tomcat jars not loading and classpath is > not working in tomcat8.0.33 version? > > Many Thanks in advance. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org>