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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24179 Including CATALINA_BASE in the catalina and common class loaders construction Summary: Including CATALINA_BASE in the catalina and common class loaders construction Product: Tomcat 4 Version: 4.1.27 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: Other Component: Catalina AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The idea is to modify org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap (or implement a subclass) to include the following paths in the base class loaders: commonLoader: - $CATALINA_BASE/common/classes - $CATALINA_BASE/common/endorsed/*.jar - $CATALINA_BASE/common/lib/*.jar catalinaLoader: - $CATALINA_BASE/server/classes - $CATALINA_BASE/server/lib/*.jar A reason for this modification would be the next scenario: Suppose a web-enabled solution that uses a Tomcat server as a servlet container, but that involves the development or usage of custom valves, listeners, socket factories and so. Some of these applications will require some extra libraries to be added to the common class loader. Some others will require them to be in the catalina class loader. Currently, the only way to get this to work is to customize a full Tomact installation, putting the additional jars in common/lib or server/lib. This means that, in a development environment, each programmer will need a local full tomcat installed for the product to be tested. If you multiply this by N developers, and by M different products, the waste of space begins to become important. If those "tomcat components" are shared among products, and different versions are incompatible, the same can be applied to a customer production environment, where using a shared instance would be desirable, but it would not be possible due to library incompatibilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
