Hi, > Could someone tell me what is the purpose of having WebappLoader and > WebappClassLoader in Tomcat? >>WebappLoader is the Tomcat object that a user can configure that >>represents the class loader. It remains the same across web application >>stop/start.
>>WebappClassLoader is the actual class loader. Every time the web >>application is started, a new instance is created and used. > As I understand WebappClassLoader is per web application and WebAppLoader for > tomcat server instance. Am I wrong? >>Yes. Thanks for the quick explanation. So it means WebappClassLoader and WebAppLoader both are per web application. In tomcat 7 we were able to add repository to the class loader using WebAppClassLoader.addRepository() So in Tomcat 8 if we wanna add repositories to the classloader we should done that trough the WebAppLoader not with WebAppClassLoader? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks Best Regards 2015-04-21 1:51 GMT+05:30 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > On 20/04/2015 14:22, Thusitha Thilina Dayaratne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Could someone tell me what is the purpose of having WebappLoader and > > WebappClassLoader in Tomcat? > > WebappLoader is the Tomcat object that a user can configure that > represents the class loader. It remains the same across web application > stop/start. > > WebappClassLoader is the actual class loader. Every time the web > application is started, a new instance is created and used. > > > As I understand WebappClassLoader is per web application and > WebAppLoader for > > tomcat server instance. Am I wrong? > > Yes. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --
