On 25/09/2012 16:04, Elgs Chen wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thanks for your fast answer. That helped me to narrow down the scope of this > problem. I understand line 262 is to initialize and create the common, shared > and catalina class loaders. But I'm still struggling how the > WebappClassLoader.loadClass(String name, boolean resolve) be able to load the > class ServletDef. Can you please give me some more insight into this method? > I think the it should load the class via the catalina class loader as my > previous assumption 1 was wrong. If this is the case, How does this method > achieve that?
This is beginning to sound like a homework question. I suggest you look at the source code for the WebappClassLoader and/or trace through the code using a debugger. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org