Hi Oren,
Oren Livne wrote:
Dear Gaurav and everyone,
Thanks so much for your help. The explanations were good and helped me
better understand how the tomcat classloader works. However, I still
have a problem running my web application. In short, the exception is
"java.lang.NoClassDefFoundEr
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Oren,
Oren Livne wrote:
> - $tomcat_home/lib contains: (I copied the Struts and Hibernate libs
> over here)
Why did you do this? Unless you have a /really/ good reason, all of the
libs required for your webapp should be in $YOUR_APP/WEB-INF/lib. Get
Dear Gaurav and everyone,
Thanks so much for your help. The explanations were good and helped me
better understand how the tomcat classloader works. However, I still
have a problem running my web application. In short, the exception is
"java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/log4j/Categor
Log4j loads "log4j.properties" from the classpath of the classloader that
loaded itself(log4j classes). In your case, log4j is loaded by tomcat
classloader, since it is present in $TOMCAT_HOME/lib. Classes and files
under WEB-INF/classes are not visible to that classloader, hence the
problem.
Reg
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Oren,
Oren Livne wrote:
> 1. I tried to set up some useful libraries in directories outside
> $tomcat_home/lib but they were not recognized.
This isn't surprising. Tomcat expects to have full control over its own
classpath. You're better-off putting
Dear All:
I'm running tomcat 6.0.7 beta on a linux redhat 8 system. Here are my
questions:
1. I tried to set up some useful libraries in directories outside
$tomcat_home/lib but they were not recognized.
I did that by setting:
CLASSPATH=/srv/lib/hibernate-3.2.1.GA:/srv/lib/hibernate-tools-3.2.
