On 10/03/2012 17:28, Benjamin Muschko wrote:
> I am running an embedded container 7.0.26 that loads the web application
> classes and external JARS using the method 
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/api/org/apache/catalina/loader/WebappLoader.html#addRepository%28java.lang.String%29
> WebappLoader#addRepository(java.lang.String) . One of the external JARs is
> spring-web with version 3.1. That JAR file provides the class 
> http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.0.M2/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/SpringServletContainerInitializer.html
> SpringServletContainerInitializer  annotated with @HandlesTypes to load
> implementations of 
> http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.0.M2/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/WebApplicationInitializer.html
> WebApplicationInitializer  for web apps that don't provide a web.xml.
> 
> In my application I provide an implementation of WebApplicationInitializer.
> This is found if I add my compiled class files as JAR file using
> WebappLoader#addRepository(java.lang.String) - the web application gets
> configured correctly. However, adding the classes directory instead will not
> resolve the class. This sounds like some kind of class loading issue to me.
> 
> As a side-note the web application is loaded just fine when you provide a
> web.xml (Servlet compatibility < 3.0). All classes can be resolved and used.

Could this be because a default of metadata-complete="true" is applied
for applications without web.xml to configure it otherwise?


p

> You can have a look at the 
> https://github.com/bmuschko/gradle-tomcat-plugin/blob/master/plugin/src/main/groovy/org/gradle/api/plugins/tomcat/TomcatRun.groovy#L70
> source code here .
> 
> I had posted this issue as a 
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52853 bug . As a response
> I got a comment to set the context's JarScanner field scanAllDirectories to
> true after the context's creation.
> 
> context.getJarScanner().setScanAllDirectories(true);
> 
> Unfortunately, that didn't fix the problem for me. Does anybody else have an
> idea how to make this work?
> 
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