Help with classpath issues

[John Gentilin <ge...@eyecatching.com>]

I am trying to dynamic load classes and load configuration files
via my class path. I know at runtime I can only use what's in
my system classpath and that my ./classes and ./lib are only
visible to Tomcat and not the servlet.  For development, I have
fudged my system classpath but this will never fly for deployment.

Has anyone come up for a solution for a 3.1 or a 3.2 server.
I searched the list archive and there is some mention that 3.3 fixes
this (although no detail) but 3.3 is not widely available with any
ISP's providing Tomcat support.

Thank you
John Gentilin

RE: Help with classpath issues

[Filip Hanik <ma...@filip.net>]

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()

will give you the current class loader, this one points to WEB-INF/classes
and WEB-INF/lib
everything you need!

Filip

~
Namaste - I bow to the divine in you
~
Filip Hanik
Software Architect
filip@filip.net
www.filip.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Gentilin [mailto:gentijo@eyecatching.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:22 AM
> To: Apache TomCat Project
> Subject: Help with classpath issues
>
>
> I am trying to dynamic load classes and load configuration files
> via my class path. I know at runtime I can only use what's in
> my system classpath and that my ./classes and ./lib are only
> visible to Tomcat and not the servlet.  For development, I have
> fudged my system classpath but this will never fly for deployment.
>
> Has anyone come up for a solution for a 3.1 or a 3.2 server.
> I searched the list archive and there is some mention that 3.3 fixes
> this (although no detail) but 3.3 is not widely available with any
> ISP's providing Tomcat support.
>
> Thank you
> John Gentilin
>
>
>