> doh! not only did i not mention which version i'm using, i also
> mispoke... mondays...
>
> so, i'm using the latest tomcat 4.0 out of cvs (co'd this morning).
>
> also, it's in the servlet init method, *not* it's service method where
> the thread is created.
>
> when i get some time, i'm going to try and recreate this in a small
> example that i can post.
>
> -kevin.
>
> kevin seguin wrote:
> >
> > i have a servlet that creates a thread in it's service method. this
> > thread basically does a bunch of initialization stuff.
> >
> > when i add a load-on-startup element for this servlet in web.xml, it
> > reports a NoClassDefFoundError on a class in the same package as the
> > servlet.
> >
> > i have not seen this problem with any other load-on-startup servlets.
> > the only difference is that this servlet kicks off a new thread.
> >
> > ideas? is this a bug, or just bad programming on my part (well, not
> > really my part, but that's another story...)?
> >
> > i started to look through the startup/loader/class loader, but quickly
> > got overwhelmed :)
With the current code it will fail indeed.
Remy
