> From: Gary Hirschhorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Classes in tomcat\server\lib folder sometimes are > visible to web application > > According to this documentation, classes in this jar > should be TOTALLY invisible to web applications.
That's not quite the case. Classes outside of a given classloader's branch can not be *loaded* by that classloader. However, if references to instances of such "outside" classes are made available to code from the classloader branch of interest, that code can use those objects. Nearly all of Tomcat's code, including the classloaders, request/response wrappers, servlet API handlers, etc., are in server/lib, yet are obviously used by application servlet code. > So I understand why it does not work (class should not > be visible), but why does it ever work? Without seeing the code, it's difficult to even speculate. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
