> 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.
As I said privately, I have a fix. Should I commit it now ?
Remy
