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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Holger Wiechert <Ho...@coconet.de> on 2000/08/01 19:09:18 UTC

Tomcat's classes dir is not in the internal classpath

Hi,

I've got a problem with a simple thing on tomcat.

My problem is, that I don't know how to place the class file(s) so that they
don't get 
accessed via a client (browser). So, I don't want to put them in the root of
my application
(here "sillyapplet", see below).
According to the doc on deployment
(<TOMCAT_HOME>\doc\appdev\deployment.html),
the folders "WEB-INF/classes" and "WEB-INF/lib" are automatically added to
the classpath 
of my application.

The directory and file structure of my simple "web application" on tomcat is
as follows:


-
 |
 webapps 
        |
	sillyapplet (index.html)
                   |
		   WEB-INF
			  |
			   classes (MyApplet.class)
			   lib 


The HTML-File (index.html) is quite simple:

<html>
<head>
<title>Silly applet </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1><font face="Arial">Here's just a silly applet...</font></h1>
<p><applet code="MyApplet.class" width="200" height="100"></applet></p>
</body>
</html>


The applet (MyApplet.class) is only found when placed in the app root (in
"sillyapplet") 
but not when placed in the "WEB-INF/classes" directory.

But doing so, anybody can access it via

http://www.sillydomain.com/sillyapplet/MyApplet.class

Does anybody know, how to configure tomcat in order to place it in the
classes dir?

I'm using NT4, SP5, JDK1.3, MSIE5.

Thanks in advance, 

Holger