On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out why Tomcat won't find my JDBC driver. When it
> runs, it gives me an exception:
>
> sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar,
>'/home/mddevel/MD8/packages/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/webapps/servlets/WEB-INF/lib/md8.jar'
> *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar,
>'/home/mddevel/MD8/packages/jakarta-tomcat-4.0/webapps/servlets/WEB-INF/lib/jython.jar'
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
> at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Native Method)
> at java.lang.Throwable.fillInStackTrace(Compiled Code)
> at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Compiled Code)
> at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Compiled Code)
> at java.lang.ClassNotFoundException.<init>(Compiled Code)
> at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(Compiled Code)
> at org.apache.catalina.loader.StandardClassLoader.loadClass(Compiled Cod
>
> Now I know for a fact that my jdbc driver is in my WEB-INF/lib
> directory, so why can't it find it?
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Well, I typed the above message up and about ready to hit send when it
> occurred to me what might be the problem.
>
> The name of the compressed file for oracle is classes12.zip. I changed
> the name to classes12.jar and everything works fine now. I figured I
> would report this as a bug and so maybe this could be fixed in future
> versions. Plus, I have seen other questions on the news group relating
> to this.
>
It's not really a bug -- the Servlet Specification is clear that only JAR
files are loaded from "/WEB-INF/lib". Tomcat 4.0 follows this same
philosophy when building class paths from "$TOMCAT_HOME/lib" directories.
> Chris
>
Craig McClanahan
