Pretty much and I don't know the reason why that is, I am not in charge of the linux servers I only started looking into it because I couldn't get my method to work but it worked on my local windows environment. The entire web app is classes so its actually a class in WEB-INF\classes, that for some unknown reason the entire package is also sym linked in tomcat\common\classes.
Can you think of any reason why someone would do that? I can only assume that at some point in the past someone else has had classloading issues and decided that that hack would solve it. That is unconfirmed though. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] Sent: 28 June 2010 14:02 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Classloading On 28/06/2010 13:48, Ockleford Paul (NHS Connecting for Health) wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks very much for confirming that and for providing me with more > information. One thing I still find strange though is how SupplementaryEdit > (in the webapp) is able to call a class loaded by the "common" classloader? > Does it not work the other way round as well? So, to clarify something, there is a symlink in common/lib which points to a jar which is actually inside your application WEB-INF/lib? p > Thanks, > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shay Rojansky [mailto:r...@roji.org] > Sent: 28 June 2010 13:35 > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Classloading > > Hi Paul. > > Yes, this is the normal behavior. As you found out, Tomcat uses a > different classloader for the "common" classes than that used for for > loading your webapp classes. > > Basically, when your application loads PracCalc, Tomcat looks first in > the "common" directory and loads it from there. Then, since the > reference to SupplementaryEdit is from PracCalc, PracCalc's classloader (the > "common" > one) is used to search for the dependency, SupplementaryEdit. Since > the "common" classloader knows nothing about your webapp's classes, a > ClassNotFoundException is thrown. > > You have to plan well how to manage your JARs and classes. One > solution is to put all dependencies in your webapp, another is to make > sure that if you put a dependency in Tomcat's common directory, all of > the dependency's dependencies must also be there. > > Shay > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Ockleford Paul (NHS Connecting for > Health) <paul.ocklef...@nhs.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I had a problem this morning that took me a while to sort out, and >> now I know what the issue is I was hoping somebody could explain why >> the problem was happening. I assume it is because one class had been >> loaded by a different classloader, and so wasn't available to the second >> class. >> >> I have 2 classes in different packages but within the same web application: >> >> SupplementaryEdit - webapps/WEB-INF/classes PracCalc - >> webapps/WEB-INF/classes >> >> I added a method to SupplementaryEdit and then called it within this >> class and it worked ok. Next I created an object of SupplementaryEdit >> in PracCalc and tried to call this new method. I got a >> classnotfoundexception for SupplementaryEdit at the point of >> instantiation and I was struggling to find out why. >> >> After spending ages trying different things I started looking through >> the common classes in tomcat and found that someone had previously >> created a symlink to the package PracCalc is in there. I read a >> little on tomcat classloading and came to the conclusion that this >> was causing PracCalc to be loaded by a different loader to SupplementaryEdit. >> >> If someone could confirm this that would be good, and also could >> someone explain why the class in the web app isn't available to the >> class referenced in common/lib? >> >> I don't understand because I get a runtime exception in the block >> where the object is created, and not on initial class use (as I used >> the class without triggering the code block fine), and I also don't >> understand why at runtime the common classloader is not able to >> resolve the class, as I have tested by calling a class that creates a >> SupplementaryEdit object before trying from PracCalc and it still didn't >> work. >> >> To resolve the issue I moved the method into PracCalc as this still >> made sense logically and the code now works, just looking for some >> general help\guidance. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> >> ********************************************************************* >> *********************************************** >> >> This message may contain confidential information. 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