RE: J2EE classpath issue, was Tomcat 3 will not load on Windows 98

[Da...@rnib.org.uk]

Thanks Charles.

    >     You don't want to download the Sun J2EE package - Tomcat 
    >     supplies its own, and having both on your system at the 
    >     same time can lead to some "interesting" events.
    > 
    > Is this bad planning, or something a user should know 
    about and work 
    > round? J2EE does get other uses.
    
    As far as I can tell (Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere), 
    all the J2EE players provide their own copy of the 
    necessary pieces of the J2EE jar from Sun, along with their 
    implementations of the interfaces and abstract classes, 
    plus their own extensions.  Due to the complexity of J2EE 
    class loading, having the Sun (or any other) J2EE jar in 
    the classpath results in mixed resolutions - some classes 
    come from the desired location, others from the wrong 
    (possibly incompatible) one. Leads to much head-scratching.

So its primarily a classpath issue? I.e. its not a case of *don't
use J2EE* and ensure your classpath order is right.

  I guess it is in the documentation... or is it? I'll check.

regards DaveP

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