Lutz -- thanks for the help but unfortunately even after copying
the jar to the $TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib/ directory I still am
having problems. :(
Anyone else have any ideas?
Cheers,
Brandon
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Lutz Zetzsche
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
>
> Am Freitag, 20. Mai 2005 23:01 schrieb Brandon Dove:
> > I recently upgraded from 5.5.4 -> 5.5.9. Now when starting
my
> > app I get the error:
> >
> > May 20, 2005 4:28:10 PM
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
> > filterStart
> > SEVERE: Exception starting filter addressFilter
> > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> > com.mycompany.servlet.AddressFilter
> > [...]
> > May 20, 2005 4:28:10 PM
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
> > start
> > SEVERE: Error filterStart
> >
> > AddressFilter is located in a JAR that can be found in
> > /webapps/WEB-INF/lib (as usual) so I'm not sure why it can't
> > find the class?
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> It is strange that this error didn't occur with Tomcat 5.5.4
if I am
> right with my following assumption:
>
> From my point of view, your address filter
> com.mycompany.servlet.AddressFilter must be visible to the
Tomcat class
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.
>
> According to the class loader how-to explaining the class
loading tree,
> such classes that has to be visible to Tomcat classes cannot
be placed
> in the shared or WebappX directories:
>
>
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html
>
> Try to put your address filter into the common directory. If I
am right
> this should work after a server restart.
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Lutz
>
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