Hi Tony, Tony Cooke wrote on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:49 AM:
> Hi all. > > > > I've created an application that monitors an ftp site and downloads > files when they change. > > > > This works well when the application runs as a stand-alone app. > > > > When I incorporate the application into a portlet as a jar I get the > following error: > > > > Could not create a file system manager of class > "org.apache.commons.vfs.impl.StandardFileSystemManager". > > > > I gather it cannot find the class but the jars of the > providers and VFS > exist in the portlet's WEB-INF/lib directory. I rather bet, you have an active SecurityManager that prohibits the access to the file system ... ;-) > Is this the right place for the jars? > > I thought it would because the portlet loads the application jar from > WEB-INF/lib (or WEB-INF/classes) and the application should > have access > to the portlets classpath which include these 2 paths. > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Try to enable security logs. There was a property mensioned in the JDK, but I don't know by heart. - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]