My experience has been the reverse -- shared/lib is usually disabled and
not working, common/lib is used most of the time.
The difference between the two is common/lib is visible to both tomcat
internals and the webapps. That's why we put the db drivers in there
for container managed connection pooling. Shared/lib is only visible
to the webapps -- tomcat internals can't see or access it.
--David
Luis Rivera wrote:
Hi,
Just as a comment. I use the shared classloader by using the shared
folder
to avoid loading multiple times my shared libraries (for jni use). I
am not
sure what is the difference with the common/lib classloader, but it
did not
work when I used that one.
--Luis R.
On 4/24/07, David Delbecq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry Leon but you are wrong.
What Thomas looks for is common/lib, not server/lib
according to
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html it's
common/lib that is loaded in common classloader. server/lib is loaded in
catalina classloader which is not visible for webapps.
To answer Thomas, yes, classes in common/lib get loaded only once in
permgen. The problem of loading classes in common/lib is that they get
shared. If some webapp call some static setter in JAF or JavaMail (to
set a resolver of any kind) this one will be used by all running
webapps. This can lead to curious bugs you might take a lot of time to
solve.
En l'instant précis du 24/04/07 10:42, Leon Rosenberg s'exprimait en ces
termes:
> i thinks its server/lib you are looking for (or common/endorsed) but
> i'm not sure whether java mail has some static fields which will be
> screwed by sharing them among all apps.
>
> leon
>
>
> On 4/24/07, Thomas Papke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I need some help to the classloader concept of tomcat... (version
5.5.)
>>
>> Our Tomcat has about 60 webapps running - right now every webapps
have
>> in their Web/lib directory the libs for activation and java mail
(among
>> other libs). As I understand, right now this libs are 60times loaded
>> into Permgen - if i will but them into the common/lib of tomcat -
they
>> are loaded only once info permgen? Any problem to share
activation.jar
>> and mail.jar inside common/lib for all webapps?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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