Hi Haytham, I am pretty new to Tomcat myself but I think this will help you. Modify your setclasspath.bat file in your %TOMCAT%\bin dir to have your files added to the CLASSPATH env variable. In this case as long as the sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader class loader is called to load the files (which I am pretty sure it will be called) your classes can be loaded from whichever location you like.
I hope that helps. ~Sumit -----Original Message----- From: Haytham Samad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:53 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Web App Classloader..How? I have a question regarding how the web application loader works. Especially when my application is not deployed under <tomcat home>/webapps in Tomcat 4.1.x. This is the situation. Tomcat is installed on drive "C:" on the server and I have my application deployed on drive D. This is the a requirement. In my application, I have 2 jsp's that are under WEB-INF\jsp. They can only be accessed through forwards from other resources on the server. In these jsp's, I make use of classes that are under WEB-INF\classes in my application. Now, when the jsp compiler attempts to compile the jsp's (create servlet classes and then compile them) how does it know where to look for the classes. I would like to know how that works and how I can control it (change the class loading behavior) to help with the following issue: When I hit one of the jsp's, I get a compilation error saying that the calsses I imported and attempted to use in my jsp cannot be found? It also shows that it is looking under a directory that is under the C drive and not under my application's WEB-INF\classes directory. I have the server.xml configuration as follows: <Context path="/MyApp" docBase="D:\Webfiles\TomcatApps\MyApp" debug="0"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="D:\Webfiles\LogFiles" prefix="MyApp" timestamp="true" /> </Context> I am using STRUTS, but that should not be a big deal since I have the jsp's mapped correctly. This all works fine when I deploy under <Tomcat Home>\webapps. It is just when I deploy as described above (production deployment) does this happen. I would appreciate any direction on this and if possible some good description (or a pointer to where I can find one) as to how to control the class loader. Another option I tried was compiling the jsp's and loading them up compiled in org/apache/jsp. This worked but with frequent updates to the site and more jsp's, this will become a hassle. Thanks for the help. Haytham --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
