Craig,
I feel really stupid now. I'm sorry for wasting your time on this. I was putting
the entry in the conf/web.xml file like you guessed, instead of the servlet
context web.xml file where it belongs.
I'll try to be more careful in the future.
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: Tomcat 4.0b7 Load on Startup
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8/14/2001 7:05 PM
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Jonathan Pierce wrote:
> Craig wrote:
>
> >>Servlets that load at startup are loaded from the webapp class loader
> >>(along with all other servlets, filters, and application event >>listeners),
> >>which checks things in the following order:
> >>
> >> /WEB-INF/classes of your web-app
> >> /WEB-INF/lib/*.jar of your web-app
> >> $CATALINA_HOME/lib
> >> $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib
> >> System class loader (configured in catalina.sh or catalina.bat
> >> from a predefined CLASSPATH)
> >> $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext (i.e. the system extensions directory)
> >> Java runtime classes
>
> This should be an easy one to reproduce or explain away. I can't get Tomcat
> 4.0b7 to see classes in the webapps directory at startup.
>
> Try adding the following to your web.xml file. The class is already in the
> examples context. At startup, Tomcat shows a class not found error in the log
> file. Is there something else that is needed that I am missing here?
>
> <!-- SnoopServlet -->
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>SnoopServlet</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>SnoopServlet</servlet-class>
> <load-on-startup>7</load-on-startup>
> </servlet>
>
I hope you did this on the "examples" webapp, or on some other webapp
where SnoopServlet.class already exists :-) It doesn't exist in the
Manager webapp, just as a for instance :-) :-).
I just edited the web.xml file for the examples app, and changed the entry
for the "snoop" servlet there, and the log says:
2001-08-14 19:07:30 snoop: init
immediately after a Tomcat restart. This also works for me on every
Struts app I've ever tried.
Craig
