On 30/08/2010 10:13, Chefo wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Christopher Schultz < > ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > > Stefan, > > On 8/27/2010 7:34 AM, Chefo wrote: >>>> thanks for the interest - of course I'll give you an example. > Surprisingly >>>> it is not java.lang.Object that I'm trying to hide but the stax api in > java >>>> 6. I need to do so because of the notorious fault in the >>>> XMLOutputFactory#newInstance(String, ClassLoader). > > Interesting. > > Why not simply put your replacement STAX into the system's endorsed > libraries? Wouldn't that fix pretty much everything, and require much > less work? > > >> Anathema! >> Messing with the endorsed libs is strongly discouraged (and considered >> heresy) around here. Otherwise yeah - that was my first thought also.
So you're inventing a new way of doing things instead? p >>>> The thing is that osgi runtime in which the catalina lives complicates > the >>>> class loading a bit. >>>> Note that this black voodoo magic for configuring restricted system > packages >>>> is not something I've invented - I just saw there is such thing in jetty > and >>>> was extremely happy to see it could be implemented with little effort in >>>> tomcat as well. > > Jetty is OSS... can you steal their ClassLoader implementation? > > >> Hey I sense some negative connotation here - I got the idea from there. I'm >> extending the catalina webapp class loader (basically adding 5-6 lines of >> code) and it has nothing in common with jetty src. > > > I highly recommend Rainer's suggestion of writing a loader to configure > your ClassLoader, rather than trying to get the ClassLoader to configure > itself (always tricky). > > Good luck, and let us know how it goes. > > >> Sure already followed Rainer's advice - worked perfectly fine. >> Thanks again for all the help guys. > > > > -chris >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> > Best regards, > chefo
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