*sigh* Apologies to the group. There is no need to respond to my posts. I knew it had to be something easy that I was overlooking.
The problem was caused by the fact that my build.xml was not including my compiled code in the jar file I was creating, so my jar was essentially empty, and thus the controller servet was not deployed with the war file. Darren -----Original Message----- From: Darren Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 3:07 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Setting the classpath for my application I wanted to confirm that jar files in the WEB-INF/lib directory were included in the classpath for my application. In reading through the online documentation for Tomcat I found the following: "WebappX - A class loader is created for each web application that is deployed in a single Tomcat 5 instance. All unpacked classes and resources in the /WEB-INF/classes directory of your web application archive, plus classes and resources in JAR files under the /WEB-INF/lib directory of your web application archive, are made visible to the containing web application, but to no others." I am doing exactly this. My jar file (foo.jar) is in the webapps/abc/WEB-INF/lib directory for my 'abc' application. However, in the Catalina log file, when Tomcat starts, I get a "ClassNotFound - com.abc.framework.ControlServlet" error. Why can my servlet not be found if it resides in the jar under the WEB-INF/lib directory??? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Darren -----Original Message----- From: Darren Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 1:59 PM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: Setting the classpath for my application Is the fact that I'm receiving a ClassNotFound error from Tomcat's ClassLoader for a class that I've created indicative of a bad classpath? Are jar files stored in WEB-INF/lib automatically included in Tomcat's classpath for my application? If so, how do I set the classpath for my application in Tomcat? Thanks, Darren -----Original Message----- From: Darren Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 11:19 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: ClassNotFound - Is WEB-INF/lib in my app's classpath? Ok, I've deployed my application in Tomcat 5.5 on Solaris using the war deploy feature in the manager. The application (lets call it 'foo') shows up in the manager as '/foo', so I know that it deploys. When I look in catalina.log, I see a ClassNotFound exception, alerting me that the ClassLoader wasn't able to find my ControllerServlet class. Here is the error from Catalina.log: 2006-07-24 09:38:46,987 DEBUG org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/foo] - Sending application start events 2006-07-24 09:38:46,987 DEBUG org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/foo] - Starting filters 2006-07-24 09:38:47,002 INFO org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/foo] - Marking servlet controller as unavailable 2006-07-24 09:38:47,002 ERROR org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/foo] - Error loading WebappClassLoader delegate: false repositories: /WEB-INF/classes/ ----------> Parent Classloader: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com.abc.framework.controller.ControlServlet java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.abc.framework.controller.ControlServlet My ControlServlet class is located in this jar file webapps/foo/WEB-INF/lib/abc.jar in the package com.abc.framework.controller;. Are the jar files in WEB-INF/lib included in my application's classpath by default? Do I need to make a classpath change somewhere? Is the fact that WEB-INF/lib not show up in the repositories listing above meaningful? Why can't Tomcat's classloader find my ControlServlet class? Thanks, Darren --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
