This patch may help if you are compiling with JDK1.3 and using Tomcat5: http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/tomcat-devel/2003-February/046413.html
Rita In a message dated 7/14/03 9:14:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Subj:Custom ClassLoader configuration problem > Date:7/14/03 9:14:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Peck) > Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> (Tomcat Users > List) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Can anyone help me with custom class loaders in Tomcat. > > I am trying to add a custom class loader that will retrieve classes from > a source other than the normal class path entries and cannot figure how > to get Tomcat to load my Class loader chained to WebappLoader. > > I have tried entering the following code into server.xml > > <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="1"> > <Loader loaderClass="RemoteClassLoader" delegate="true"/> > </Context> > > And this seems to throw no errors but does not get used or at any point > execute any code in the constructors of the class loader. > > When I added a 'RemoteLoader' class which extended WebappLoader, > catalina threw a NoClassDefFoundError for WebappLoader. I assume this is > because catalina.jar has not yet been loaded, only bootstrap at this > point. > > If anyone has successfully achieved a similar process could you help me > out. I noticed Joe User had a similar question, if you figured it out > maybe you could point me in the rigth direction > >
