Laird Nelson wrote:
>
> Craig, is this old hat to you or should I write something up and pursue
> this further?
>
Tomcat 3.2 goes through incredible machinations to build a classpath for you on
a Windows machine, but it is definitely possible to make one that is too long --
the net effect is that things on the end of the classpath will be silently
ignored.
Tomcat 4.0 uses a different stategy -- it builds internal "class paths" for the
various class loaders that it creates, based on the set of JAR files found in
well defined directories. There is only very limited reliance on the CLASSPATH
environment variable itself. Thus, it doesn't suffer the same sorts of
problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Laird
>
Craig
