I did the following based on the inputs I received (thanks for replying),
however, I am still not successful in getting it to work
* I made sure that the web-inf directory was in upper case (WEB-INF).
* Winzip shows that all the jar files are in WEB-INF/lib/ directory. But for
some reason winzip shows the web.xml file is in web-inf/web.xml although
when extracted it the file is in WEB-INF/web.xml. Is this wrong ??
* When checked using winzip, I do not see the empty sub directories under
WEB-INF/lib. However, when running tomcat, these empty sub directories gets
created.
Please let me know if there is anything else that I can do to make it work
Thanks in advance.
Abi -
Larry Isaacs wrote:
> I have found that WinZip always displays WEB-INF as "Web-inf"
> when viewing the contents of a WAR file. It doesn't seem to
> cause a problem when the WAR is expanded.
>
> It is incorrect to see extra directories created under
> WEB-INF/lib. This suggests that the WAR is packaged
> incorrectly. I can't tell what might be wrong from the
> information available so far. You can use the supplied
> WAR files as examples of what a WAR internally might look
> like.
>
> Note that Tomcat 3.2.x will not overwrite a web application
> directory if it already exists. You have to delete the
> directory first and then restart Tomcat 3.2.x to have the
> WAR file re-expanded.
>
> For those using Tomcat 3.3, you can avoid needing to delete the
> directory by adding redeploy="true" to the AutoDeploy module
> in the server.xml. When Tomcat is started, it will re-expand
> the WAR file. Also, if the ReloadInterceptor is present,
> which it is by default, updating the WAR file while Tomcat
> is running will trigger redeploy and restart the web
> application the next time it is accessed.
>
> Cheers,
> Larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Abinesh S Puthenpurackal
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:02 AM
> > To: Tomcat Users List
> > Subject: Re: ClassNotFoundException when using war file (Tomcat 3.2.3)
> >
> >
> > The examples that gets shipped with the tomcat.zip file also
> > uses Web-inf !!!!
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I'm new to tomcat but shouldn't it bet WEB-INF?
> > > isn't it case sensitive?
> > >
> > > Scott Archer
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > > Abinesh S
> > > Puthenpurackal To:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > <abinesh.puthenpurackal cc:
> > > @sdrc.com> Subject:
> > ClassNotFoundException when using war file (Tomcat 3.2.3)
> > >
> > > 10/31/2001 09:45 AM
> > > Please respond to
> > > "Tomcat Users List"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to use a war which has some jar files in it for my web
> > > application in tomcat 3.2.3. The war file is structured as follows
> > >
> > > WarFile.war
> > > Web-inf/lib/jarfile1.jar
> > > Web-inf/lib/jarfile2.jar
> > > Web-inf/lib/jarfile3.jar
> > >
> > > When running the application I get ClassNotFoundException for the
> > > classes in the jar file. Also I noticed that empty directories (that
> > > follows my package structure) were created under lib
> > directory. E.g. I
> > > see the following empty directories
> > >
> > >
> > %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/webapplication/Web-inf/lib/examples/addr
> > essbook/.....
> > >
> > > A workaround is to place the jar files in the tomcat/lib
> > directory. This
> > > will result in the the jars to be added to the classpath
> > and everything
> > > works fine.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone knows about a cleaner solution or
> > point out if
> > > there is something that I need to do to get this working (perhaps
> > > something in manifest file or web.xml file etc.).
> > >
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Abi -
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