I looked at tomcat 8 source code to determine how the class loader resolves libraries and class folders specified in post resources.
if the order of post resources is as follows <PostResources base="D:\Projects\external\classes" className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.DirResourceSet" webAppMount="/WEB-INF/classes"/> <PostResources base="D:\Projects\lib\library1.jar" className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.FileResourceSet" webAppMount="/WEB-INF/lib/library1.jar"/> then the class loader looks for classes in library1.jar before it looks for classes in D:\Projects\external\classes which seems counterintuitive. I worked around this issue by specifying PostResources as follows. <PostResources base="D:\Projects\external\classes" className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.DirResourceSet" webAppMount="/WEB-INF/classes"/> <PostResources base="D:\Projects\lib\library1.jar" className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.JarResourceSet" webAppMount="/WEB-INF/classes"/> Do you think my issue is valid, or I just have to configure resources the way I showed above to get correct ordering when resolving classes? -- View this message in context: http://tomcat.10.x6.nabble.com/Tomcat-8-5-Regarding-PostResources-for-Web-Inf-lib-and-Web-Inf-classes-tp5053929p5054690.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
