Can some experts answer this one for me? Thanx!
I want to use embedded tomcat in my application and I want to include only bootstrap.jar in my classpath. I am wondering how to achieve this. I wrote a class called EmbeddedTest that does what is given org.apache.catalina.startup.Embedded. I added catalina.jar in my classpath to compile the file. I removed catalina.jar from my classpath after that. I wrote another class to set up classloaders and call EmbeddedTest I set up the classloaders thus: commonloader = ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(commonclassesdirs, commonlibdirs, null); catalinaloader = ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(catalinaclassesdirs, catalinalibdirs, commonloader); Class embeddedcls = catalinaloader.loadClass("EmbeddedTest"); Method method = embeddedcls.getMethod("main", new Class[]{args.getClass()}); method.invoke(embeddedcls, new Object[]{args}); When I run this I see the error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/L ifecycleException at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:888) at LaunchTomcat.main(LaunchTomcat.java:43) The error goes away if I make my EmbeddedTest as part of package org.apache.catalina.startup - which I dont to do. And even if I made as part of the package org.apache.catalina.startup package it doesnt work if I set up the EmbeddedTomcat to use any of my custom logger or realm implementations - essentially if I refer to any class file outside of the catalinaloader. Am I missing something here - how do I run the embedded tomcat with out having to include tomcats server files in my classpath? Thanx Ganesh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>