RE: jar's still not picked up in WEB-INF/lib

[Paul FitzPatrick <cp...@fitzpatrick.cc>]

It could be because this works for so many people.  I t works great for me.
I have seen however, that it will not find things right if my classpath is
loaded with extra stuff when I launch tomcat.  I usually have other copies
of the jar files in my system classpath, and if I start tomcat with that
classpath I will get class not found errors.  This triggers in my mind to
stop tomcat, set classpath=. then restart tomcat and all is well.  This
might work for you too.

Regards,
Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Dunne [mailto:barrydunne@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 10:21 PM
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: jar's still not picked up in WEB-INF/lib


This problem has been posted so many times for different versions of tomcat
but it is still there.

To summarise the problem, if you put a jar file into WEB-INF/lib you get a
class not found exception when you try to use one of the classes from the
jar in a servlet. However, this does not happen when you either move the jar
to /usr/local/tomcat/lib or extract the jar into WEB-INF/classes.

Neither of these workarounds are very nice, the former makes sharing a
server between multiple contexts/developers tricky and the latter makes a
mess of the classes directory.

There have been so many posts about this feature not working over time and I
have had the problem myself on linux with tomcat 3.1, 3.2 and now 4.0m1.

This is a pretty fundemental flaw as the lib is a fairly significant part of
the specifications to be able to use WEB-INF/lib.

Does anybody know why this problem has been left for so long now?

Thanks,
Barry.

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