Hi all, I am having some difficulty in understanding the way <TOMCAT_HOME>\common\lib\*.jar and <TOMCAT_HOME>\common\endorsed\*.jar are treated.
I was having a specific problem where I was trying to add support for JSR 262 which inturn uses JAX-WS in the product I am working on. Before that it made use of Axis for other purpose and AXis uses JAX-RPC. The product was working fine before I added JSR262 support. But when I copied all the jar files required for JSR-262 and JAX-WS to web-inf\lib folder as a part of integrating the logic from the prototype to product, the change did not work. Even thoguh the same code working out side the container. After a lot of investigation I figured out that it was the JAX-RPC.jar file present in the endorsed fodler that was messing it up. So I removed that file and JSR 262 stugg started working fine. But now my axis stuff was complaining. This troubled me a lot but finally also found out the solution by putting the jax-rpc.jar file in either the WEB-INF\lib folder or the <TOMCAT_HOME>\common\lib fodler. This way both the AXIS and JSR 262 started working but I can't udnerstand what made it work. If anybody can help me understand this issue, it would be great. Thanks, Shimol.
