Kris, this is from context.html in the Tomcat 5 docs:*
Please note that for tomcat 5.x, unlike tomcat 4.x, it is NOT recommended to place <Context> elements directly in the server.xml file.* Instead, put them in the META-INF/context.xml directory of your WAR file or the conf directory as described above.
So here I am, stupidly trying to put my Foo.xml file within /META-INF/context.xml/ (and various variations of that) of my web app.
So should I rename Foo.xml to context.xml (I ask because in the conf directory I have been naming it Foo.xml, not context.xml), and put it in *WEB-INF*?
Could you show me where you found how to do this in the docs? Am I just completely misreading the above sentence?
Thanks for your help, Erik
Kris Schneider wrote:
Can you provide some more detail on the problems you're running into with using WEB-INF? I've got a simple one lying around here somewhere...
WEB-INF/context.xml: -------------------- <Context path="/init"> <Loader delegate="false"/> <Manager pathname=""/> </Context>
Seems to work fine with TC 5...
Quoting Erik Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Also, since you appear to be trying to follow the documenation, have you ever gotten a Context XML file placed within the META-INF directory of your web app to work? I can't get this to work (I have gotten them to work when placed in the conf directory -- though I had to learn the hard way to take write permissions away from Tomcat after it very rudely deleted one). The documentation is confusing, and the example web app mysteriously does not include a Context XML file at all, despite that pretty much any serious web app is going to need one (unless you declare everything in server.xml).
If you have an example of this working, please share it with me.
Erik
Ivan Vasquez wrote:
Sure, in common/lib it works well. But from Tomcat docs: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html
The following rules cover about 95% of the decisions that application developers and deployers must make about where to place class and resource files to make them available to web applications:
* For classes and resources specific to a particular web application, place unpacked classes and resources under /WEB-INF/classes of your web application archive, or place JAR files containing those classes and resources under /WEB-INF/lib of your web application archive. * For classes and resources that must be shared across all web applications, place unpacked classes and resources under $CATALINA_BASE/shared/classes, or place JAR files containing those classes and resources under $CATALINA_BASE/shared/lib.
--Then goes on...---
Common - This class loader contains additional classes that are made visible to both Tomcat internal classes and to all web applications. Normally, application classes should NOT be placed here. All unpacked classes and resources in $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes, as well as classes and resources in JAR files under the $CATALINA_HOME/commons/endorsed and $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib directories, are made visible through this class loader.
Shared - This class loader is the place to put classes and resources that you wish to share across ALL web applications (unless Tomcat internal classes also need access, in which case you should put them in the Common class loader instead). All unpacked classes and resources in $CATALINA_BASE/shared/classes, as well as classes and resources in JAR files under $CATALINA_BASE/shared/lib, are made visible through this class loader.
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In our case we want to share jars common to all applications, but none of them are required by Tomcat.
Ivan.
-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:52 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Classloading problem
I have been using 5.0.27, putting my JDBC drivers in common/lib, and my struts jars in WEB-INF/lib of each application, and haven't had any problems. Why do you say "incorrectly"?
Erik
Ivan Vasquez wrote:
We have Tomcat 5.0.16 and were incorrectly placing common jars (such as
JDBC drivers) in /common/lib.
Now we just moved them to /shared/lib (for truly common stuff) and WEB-INF/lib, but now all applications complain giving a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException, just like if things weren't in Tomcat's classpath anymore. Apps and Tomcat restarts have been done several times.
Is there anything in web.xml, server.xml, etc that needs to be set?
What
are we possibly missing? Tomcat docs are pretty straightforward about
it
and everything seems right.
Once again, thanks in advance.
Ivan.
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