and the point is that I shouldn't need to put the classes/jar in the Orion
lib. I should be free to put whatever classes/jars I need in my own
application.
The only thing about this is that it is not an easy problem to solve (ask
the Jakarta/Tomcat team), and for some reason it always seems to happen with
XML/XSLT processors :-(
Kevin Jones
DevelopMentor
www.develop.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eddie
> Sent: 29 May 2001 18:38
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Setting up a new web-application
>
>
> I hope anyone has the answer as I had the same problem... I did
> put an class
> file in the web-inf\lib web-inf\classes file that I use my servlets....>>
> the servlets where not able to find them.
>
> I resolved it the same way as you did -> put it in the lib of orion which
> seems to work.....;(
>
> Eddie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:22 PM
> Subject: RE: Setting up a new web-application
>
>
> > I've found the problem with this and its taken me the best part
> of a day!
> >
> > In my applications\AddressBook\AddressBook\web-inf\lib
> directory I have a
> > copy of Xalan.jar. This also exists in the top level directory of Orion.
> The
> > app uses the new(ish) TRaX APIs to do transforms so I need the latest
> > version of Xalan. If I remove xalan.jar from the lib directory
> everything
> > works OK (I can browse to a servlet) if I leave xalan.jar in
> there then no
> > servlets work, in fact nothing in my web-inf\lib or web-inf\classes
> > directory can be seen.
> >
> > This has to be a classloading problem! The 2.3 talks about this, my
> > web-application's class loaders need to be separate from your
> application's
> > (i.e. Orion's) class loaders - I know Magnus knows this ( :-) ).
> >
> > So - is this a known problem?
> > Is there a fix available?
> > Can I (safely) delete Xalan.jar from my orion directory?
> >
> > Kevin Jones
> > DevelopMentor
> > www.develop.com
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Marcel Schutte
> > > Sent: 29 May 2001 11:47
> > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > Subject: RE: Setting up a new web-application
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > According to the 1.4.5 documentation the default web directory mapping
> for
> > > servlets is /servlets, mind the plural
> > > (http://www.orionserver.com/docs/orion-web.xml.html). But since
> > > none of the
> > > classes in WEB-INF/classes are found there might be yet
> another problem.
> > > Could you perhaps post a zip of your orion\applications\addressbook
> > > directory tree, I'll try it out and see what I can find.
> > >
> > > Marcel
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Kevin Jones
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:20 AM
> > > > To: Orion-Interest
> > > > Subject: Setting up a new web-application
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have a web application that works fine on Tomcat 4.0b5. I'm
> > > > trying to run
> > > > it on Orion as a proof of concept but I can't get much working! I've
> > > > followed the 'atm' example in the notes and have the
> > > > following structure
> > > >
> > > > orion\applications\addressbook
> > > > orion\applications\addressbook\META-INF
> > > > orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook
> > > > orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF
> > > > orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF\classes
> > > > orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF\lib
> > > >
> > > > I've updated server.xml (with this "<application name="AddressBook"
> > > > path="../applications/AddressBook/" /> ")
> > > > and default-web-site.xml (with this "<web-app
> > > > application="AddressBook"
> > > > name="AddressBook" root="/AddressBook" />".
> > > >
> > > > I can browse to http:\\localhost:8080\AddressBook and it
> picks up the
> > > > welcome-file.
> > > > I can browse to a simple JSP (that has no beans etc.)
> > > > I can't browse to any servlet, so
> > > > http://localhost:8080/AddressBook/servlet/com.develop.ewebjava
> > > .lab.Browse
> > > and
> > > http://localhost:8080/AddressBook/servlet/SimpleServlet
> > >
> > > both return "404 Not Found Resource /AddressBook/servlet/SimpleServlet
> not
> > > found on this server"
> > >
> > > but both classes are in
> > > "orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF\classes"
> > >
> > > I can't browse to a JSP that uses beans that are in
> > > "orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF\classes"
> > >
> > > And I can't get Orion to load an application listener that is also in
> > > "orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF\classes"
> > >
> > > Orion obviously can't find classes in
> > > "orion\applications\addressbook\AddressBook\WEB-INF\classes" but
> > > this should
> > > be automatically added to the classpath for this application.
> > >
> > > What am I missing? I assume it must be configuration setting
> but I can't
> > > find anything in the docs,
> > >
> > > Kevin Jones
> > > DevelopMentor
> > > www.develop.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
