>>Use "%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib" if you want a JAR
>>file visible to both applications *and* Catalina internal classes (which
>>is rarely necessary).
What about servlets that load at startup? Which directory does Catalina search?
For servlets that load at startup, will Catalina find servlet classes in war
files in the webapps folder? This didn't work for me.
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Subject: Re: war files. (tomcat 4.0 beta 7)
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8/14/2001 9:26 AM
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
> James, Stuart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have packaged my web application in a .war file and deployed it using
> > tomcat 4.0 beta 7.
> >
> > perfect.
> >
> > The only way I could get it to work was to copy my database jar files into
> > web-inf\lib, this would make my war file platform dependent as most database
> > vendors ship different jars for each operating system.
> >
> > I tried them in the %CATALINA_HOME%\lib but that did not help.
> >
> > suggestions / recommendations.
>
> I _believe_... It's not %CATALINA_HOME%\lib, but %CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib
>
No, "%CATALINA_HOME%\lib" is the right place for JARs that should only be
seen by applications. Use "%CATALINA_HOME%\common\lib" if you want a JAR
file visible to both applications *and* Catalina internal classes (which
is rarely necessary).
Without knowing what the failure symptoms are when you put the JDBC
driver files into "%CATALINA_HOME%\lib", it's a little hard to debug "that
did not help".
> But I might be wrong...
>
> Pier
>
>
Craig
