On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Szymon Stasik wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm running Tomcat 4.0-b3 (standalone) and have some bit weired problem.
> I know that it is possible to have eg.:
>
> user1/WEB-INF
> user2/WEB-INF
>
> with apriopriate contexts:
>
> <Context path="/userX"
> docBase="/home/userX/tomcat"
> debug="0"
> reloadable="false">
> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
> prefix="framework_userX_log." suffix=".txt"
> timestamp="true"/>
> </Context>
>
> so both users can run/develop their application with no conflicts with
> other. My idea is to run cocoon (1.8) with this environment. I have
> (hopefully) solved classloader problem in cocoon, so even XSP is working
> good for me while having all jars in user1/WEB-INF/lib. Now I'd like
> user2 to have his own copy of all the jars in user2/WEB-INF/lib so he
> can use modified wersion of his own jars or cocoon or any other classes.
> AFAIK in Tomcat 4 it should be possible to allow simultanous work of
> both users with their own versions of same classes.
>
> However the results are that both users receive instances of classes
> from one of them. Strange thing - I was testing Class objects - all
> classes from my jars seems to be different for both users (eg testing
> org.apache.cocoon.Cocoon.hashCode() or any other class from WEB-INF/lib)
> but the code executed is the same for both users and for both staticaly
> (servlet) and dynamicaly (xsp) loaded code.
>
> Is it my misconfiguration, misunderstadnig or wrong behaviour of Tomcat
> or Cocoon?
>
It's (c) wrong behavior of Tomcat. Remy is currently investigating a fix
for this.
>
> regards,
>
> Szymon.
>
Craig
