How Tomcat finds classes:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: How does Tomcat set the classpath???
> 
> 
> I notice that tomcat 4.1.x explicitly sets 
> $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar and the
> bootstrap.jar file to the classpath, but that seems it.  It 
> overwrites any
> other classpath settings that may be part of the system.  How does the
> compiler know to search for things like 
> $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar?  Are
> these automatically added based on the folder they are in within the
> $JAVA_HOME?  I don't see anything that indicates that within 
> the startup
> scripts (catalina.sh and setclasspath.sh).
> 
> Any info would be appreciated.
> 
> Brandon
> 
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