David Smith wrote: > most likely the shared classloader instead. If possible, move the > handler.jar from shared/lib to WEB-INF/lib of your webapp and the > problem should go away. >>It took me a few minutes to realize that this was not a ClassNotFound >>exception, but something else. Reading docs I figured out that the most >>probably cause is that the servlet's classloader was able to find the handler >>class, but then it failed to load one of the things it depended on, >>specifically it was able to find handlerClass but not the interface class >>that it depends on. >> >>Trouble is: the interface .class file is right there in >>WEB-INF/classes/com/something/DatabaseRequestHandler.class just like it >>should be. So, I am stumped why the class loader would be able to find the >>handler class in $CATALINA_BASE/shared/lib but NOT the interface that it >>implements which is in WEB-INF/classes.
What you are trying to do won't work or at least is asking for much classloading trouble. Its basically the same as if you try to put a jdbc jar in common/lib AND in WEB-INF/lib or put the servlet api which is included by Tomcat into WEB-INF/lib again. Bad idea and sometimes caused by unwanted glitches in ant build.xmls as it is convenient to put all .jars into the .war that were required for the build, eventhough the are harmful when deployed. Even if the classloader would find your classes and interfaces if you rebundle your jars you'll run into problems (class cast exceptions) as soon if you try to cast objects loaded by two different classloaders later on. E.g. you have created a Handler class by the shared classloader and later on cast in your webapp by using the webapp classloader to use it. Remember: for instanceof to be true it's not enough to have the same class, two objects have to be loaded by the same classloader, too. Repackage your code, use the same classloader, or as David said put everything into WEB-INF/lib. Cheers, Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
