Attached is a screen shot copy of the files it extracts to the Shared
folder the classes folder it creates is empty. I do now recall there were
some similar file names to ones already in the library
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:36 AM Felix Schumacher <
felix.schumac...@internetallee.de> wrote:
>
> Am 09.02.20 um 18:46 schrieb Shane Johnson:
> > I extracted the shared folder to my desktop to see what was in it. It
> > contains 2 folders Classes and lib, with 24 jar files in the lib folder.
> I
> > did try extracting it to the Libraries in the tomcat tree and running the
> > program with no success. I now am wiping the installation of tomcat and
> > extracted program and doing a full reload. This next time I am going to
> try
> > to move the Library files in the tomcat 9 directory into a folder named
> > shared by altering the directory tree first prior to extracting the
> > program. I think I read in the docs somewhere there is a command line
> that
> > can do this so tomcat knows where to look for the library and shared
> > library files. Any more suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Try to do what Mark suggested :) The shared class loader has been
> "replaced by/merged with" the common loader. The common loader holds all
> classes and libs, that are common (shared) across all webapps.
>
> Copy everything (watch out for jars with same/similar names) that you
> found in your extracted shared folder into the lib folder. (If there
> really is a folder called Classes, that contains the class structures,
> copy the files/folders from inside Classes into the top level lib/ folder.)
>
> It might help, if you post the elements of your shared folder, so that
> others can have a better guess on where to copy those.
>
> If you want to get fancy, you can edit conf/catalina.properties and edit
> the property "comon.loader" to include your shared folder. Be sure to
> both entries for the classes and the jar files.
>
> You might want to have a look at RUNNING.txt. There is a description on
> how to setup tomcat for multiple installations. Those setups are - in my
> opinion - easier to play with, as you are not messing with the original
> installation but a minimal shallow copy.
>
> Felix
>
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:09 AM Konstantin Kolinko <
> knst.koli...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> вс, 9 февр. 2020 г. в 02:12, Peter Rader <p.ra...@gmx.net>:
> >>>
> >>>> I am currently trying to install a program designed to operate on Win
> >> XP 32
> >>>> and earlier on to a Win 10 environment. The program extracts to the
> >> Shared
> >>>> and Webapps folders of Tomcat 5.5 and uses a SQL database. After
> >> converting
> >>>> the database and installing it on SQL 2017 I added the JDBC connector
> >> and
> >>>> downloaded and installed tomcat 9 only to find there is no shared
> >> folder to
> >>>> extract the shared files to. Any suggestions?
> >>> Hm, shared ... do you mean the endorsed folder? From old apps I
> remember
> >> that some jdbc-jars have to be placed in tomcat's endorsed folder.
> >>> I am pretty sure that you could use the JVM/JDK's endorsed folder. They
> >> usually have their place in <jdk>\lib\endorsed .
> >>
> >> Endorsed folder is a different beast. Please do not put anything there.
> >>
> >> Tomcat 5.5 documentation is still available online (if you know the
> >> address to type it in a browser's address bar) [1] The closest analogy
> >> to the "Shared" classloader in current Tomcat is the "Common"
> >> classloader that loads classes from ${catalina.base|/lib.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html#Overview
> >> [2]
> >>
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html#Overview
> >>
> >> It is possible to reconfigure Tomcat 9 to have a separate Shared
> >> classloader as well, but that is an overkill.
> >>
> >> Also, do not forget about Migration Guides [3].
> >>
> >> [3] https://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
> >> [4]
> >> https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-6.html#Modified_directory_structure
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Konstantin Kolinko
> >>
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