RE: Extending Server.xml configurability (for additional classpat hs)

["Reilly, John" <Jo...@xelector.com>]

I don't understand why you would want this - doesn't the WEB-INF/lib and
WEB-INF/classes not already provide seperation of classpaths for the various
webapps.  Am I missing something?

jr

> 
> I've seen lots of discussion on the user list desiring the 
> ability to have
> additional classpaths available to web applications, but not 
> necessarily
> available to all web apps.
> 
> Ideally, this could be specified in the web.xml file, but 
> that would require
> changing a spec, and I can think of some arguments against 
> doing so anyway.
> 
> But, perhaps it would be possible to add classpath 
> specifications in the
> Server.xml file. Inside a context tag, you could specify 
> something like
> this:
> 
> <additional-classpath>~someuser/somedir/classes<additional-classpath>
> 
> Multiple occurrences of this would just add to the locations 
> where classes
> can be found.
> 
> An alternative for us would be to do something with the class 
> loaders in our
> own web apps, if that's possible, but I'd like to see Tomcat have the
> functionality.
> 
> Can someone give me some pointers to get started adding this 
> particular
> configuration tag? I'd really appreciate it.
> 
> BTW, I'm currently working with the 4.0b7 codebase. Thanks!
>