I've had similar problems and I could have sworn I saw someone give the advice that it's best to give each webapp it's own copy of the shared jars. I did that and the problems went away. I hate having duplicate files, but I guess if proper application "segmentation" is going on it's probably safer anyway. Just my two cents.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Rishea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 8:49 AM Subject: Servlets and classpath problem > Hi, > > I'm having a classpath problem with Tomcat 4.0.x on a Unix platform and was > hoping someone could point me in the right direction. > > A servlet in one of my webapps uses external classes located outside > common/lib or webapp/WEB-INF/classes. So I added the external class' > location to the classpath in my .profile, assuming this would be all I > needed to do. When I compile the servlet in my development directory, it > compiles just fine. But when I place the servlet class in WEB-INF/classes > directory and restart Tomcat, a ClassDefNotFound furball gets spit back at > me for those external classes that (I thought) would be accessible via my > classpath. > > I have root permissions so I know that isn't the issue. Is there something > else I'm missing here? An entry in server.xml or something similar? I > would really rather not copy those external classes into WEB-INF/classes (I > have tried that, and then the servlet works just fine) but I don't know what > to try next. > > Thanks for your help! > > __________________ > John Rishea > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
