http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html
this is why I can't reference any classes loaded from server/lib in my webapp, the server/lib classes are loaded by the web application classloader's "uncle", so to speak, the sibling of it's parent. so it makes sense that no web application has access to the server/lib jars. doh...!
Peter Crowther wrote:
From: Matthew Kerle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] the MemoryUser class is in catalina.jar, which is in the server/lib folder. would I be right in saying that web application code is barred from loading any classes from the server/lib directory?(light bulb comes on) Ah yes, I remember this now from some ancient history on another project. It's a real pain, principally because the Principal interface is IMO too limited. We ended up with the horrible, horrible hack of pulling the class out of catalina.jar, putting it in its own jar, and deploying that in common/lib. This, of course, means you no longer have a default Tomcat install... but we couldn't find another way round the problem. - Peter
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