Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread Rainer Jung
... and finally don't forget, that the pathes used by these class loaders are configured in conf/catalina.properties. Luis Rivera schrieb: > Well, that makes sense and I have had no problems using the shared class > loader. I guess I did something wrong when I tried to use the common class > loade

Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread Luis Rivera
Well, that makes sense and I have had no problems using the shared class loader. I guess I did something wrong when I tried to use the common class loader for my jni classes. I guess I am light years away from really knowing tomcat :) --Luis R. On 4/24/07, David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread David Smith
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 connecti

Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread Rainer Jung
common: shared between all webapps and tomcat itself shared: only shared between all webapps Luis Rivera schrieb: > 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

Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread Luis Rivera
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

Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread David Delbecq
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 an

Re: Classloader Concept

2007-04-24 Thread Leon Rosenberg
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... (ve