I have no knowledge of digesters, but if you are wanting Tomcat (the engine
itself) to use a class, then it has to be in the common/lib folder and not
deployed with the webapp. Not sure if this is the direction you want to go
or not.
hth
On 4/23/06, Christopher Piggott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> My goal is to use digester within a servlet, to parse a configuration
> file.
> When running within the servlet context digester is unable to find the
> classes specified by my rules. For example, I have this set of rules to
> process an element <xdb-config> which occurs within a <config> element:
>
> digester.addObjectCreate("config/xdb-config", XdbConfig.class);
> digester.addSetProperties("config/xdb-config", "database-name",
> "databaseName");
> digester.addSetNext("config/xdb-config", "addXdbConfig", "XdbConfig");
>
> What I get is this:
>
> Apr 23, 2006 10:21:29 PM org.apache.commons.digester.CallMethodRule
> setDigester
> SEVERE: (CallMethodRule) Cannot load class XdbConfig
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: XdbConfig
>
>
> I get this other places as well. One of the things I find odd is that
> this
> error occurs after the above one in the error log:
>
> Apr 23, 2006 10:21:29 PM org.apache.commons.digester.CallMethodRule
> setDigester
> SEVERE: (CallMethodRule) Cannot load class Config
> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Config
>
>
> Basically, the class loader seems to be able to load my classes from
> within
> my own classes, but NOT from the digester. What I don't understand is how
> that's possible when the required classes are clearly within the
> classpath;
> I upload them to tomcat as a .war and they are all exploded into
> WEB-INF/classes. I can't see how this could not be in the classpath and
> therefore not found by the digester.
>
> --Chris
>
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