Am 09.02.20 um 22:28 schrieb Shane Johnson: > 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
Attachments tend to get removed on this mailing list - as has happened to your image. Could you post the content as text? Felix > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:36 AM Felix Schumacher > <felix.schumac...@internetallee.de > <mailto: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 <mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com>> > > wrote: > > > >> вс, 9 февр. 2020 г. в 02:12, Peter Rader <p.ra...@gmx.net > <mailto: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 > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > <mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > <mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org> > >> > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > <mailto:users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > <mailto:users-h...@tomcat.apache.org> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
