Classes downloaded to the client browser for execution is just static content as far as Tomcat is concerned. Modifying the server's or webapp's "classpath" isn't going to make any difference. It's the client browser's "classpath" that needs adjusting to use the jar. This means modifying the HTML that runs the applet. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, it has been many years since I have messed with such HTML, so I can't say what those modifications would look like. Likely something in the HTML has to point at the jar where it lives in the content portion of the webapp. HTH.
Cheers, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Mann, Ivan H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 4:26 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: CLASSPATH, .jar files, packages, and so forth > > > > > > > I have an application that consists of >150 classes, organized in > > several different packages. > > > > In the past I have installed the application in > > .../webapps/<appl>/<directories> where the directory tree corresponds > > to the package layout, and this has worked fine. > > > > I am trying to change this to using .jar files for a couple of > > reasons. I took one package and created a jar file like this: > > > > cd webapps/<appl>/ > > jar cvf schedule.jar applet/schedule/*.class > > mv schedule.jar WEB-INF/lib > > rm applet/schedule/*.class > > > > I modified setupclasspath.sh to read WEB-INF/lib and add all .jar > > files to the CLASSPATH before starting tomcat. Now when I try to > > access one of the classes that I put into schedule.jar it throws a > > NoClassDefFoundError. > > > > If I run a test program with CLASSPATH pointing to the webapps/<appl> > > directory and WEB-INF/lib/schedule.jar it works fine. In tomcat it > > doesn't find the class. I would suspect that there an issue with the > > way I build the jar file, but I can't figure out why it works outside > > of tomcat but not inside. > > > > What I would really like is a cookbook document telling me how to > > distribute an application in jar files to the web. I have Googled > > many combinations of words and can't find one. If anybody has one of > > those I would really appreciate it. I thing I am missing a step > here, > > possibly making the manifest, but I just don't know what that missing > > step is. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > Ivan Mann > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
