Greetings,
I have a frustrating issue that I see when I try to set up an environment on my
Windows laptop, where I do development, to match my Linux servers that our
applications reside. Everything seems to behave the way I would expect with
the exception of setting the shared.loader property in catalina.properties.
On Linux I can set it up like this:
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.base}/
sharedProperties /*.properties,${catalina.home}/
sharedProperties,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties /*.properties
But on my Windows laptop that does not work and results in the server throwing
the following during start up:
SEVERE: Class loader creation threw exception
java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the file specified
at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.canonicalize0(Native Method)
at java.io.Win32FileSystem.canonicalize(Win32FileSystem.java:396)
at java.io.File.getCanonicalPath(File.java:559)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:201)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.createClassLoader(Bootstrap.java:174)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.initClassLoaders(Bootstrap.java:98)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:207)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:391)
I can get it working if I explicitly name all of the property files that might
be in that directory like so:
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/sharedProperties,${catalina.base}/
sharedProperties /foo.properties,${catalina.base}/ sharedProperties
/bar.properties,${catalina.home}/ sharedProperties,${catalina.home}/
sharedProperties /foo.properties,${catalina.home}/sharedProperties
/bar.properties
My intent is to not have to do that but to leave it more generic, like we do on
the Linux servers. This makes it so that each application that has a property
file that need to be dropped in that shareProperties directory does not have to
result in updating the Tomcat configuration.
Any insight on why I cannot seem to configure this the same way on Windows and
Linux would be greatly appreciated. According to the properties file itself I
should be able to do so.
Thanks
Brett Delia
