> Well as long as the user can explode the webapp, they just have to add files
> to the webapp /lib and you're in business.
Yes, this sounds like it should work for now, and I can look at
writing a custom classloader or (gasp) OSGi if I need a more complex
plugin system.
Thanks, all.
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> Do you have some kind of container-provided service that will be
> included?
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I think the answer is no.
Tomcat provides the servlet container, and it doesn't include much
besides an implementation of the servlet API, right?
> If not, why not simply inc
>> I want to release my webapp first, then allow plugin authors to write
>> and load plugins at their leisure.
>
> Have you looked at the ServiceLoader API?
No, I hadn't, but I just tried it out. Cool! I like that it hides guts
like Class.forName(). Thanks!
However, it doesn't get around the issu
> You don't say which version of Tomcat you're using, but I guess 6.0
> from your paths.
Correct. I've tried both 6.0.16 and 6.0.20.
> You should take a close look at
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html .
I read that page before posting to this list, along with othe
I have a Web application which includes an abstract class: "TransactionImport".
I compiled a subclass of TransactionImport (AudiBankImporter), placed
the class in a jar, then placed the jar in $CATALINA_HOME/lib.
What I'd like to do is load the compiled AudiBankImporter class from
the Web applica
