That is not strictly true, We had an application at work that used JNI and was part of a Database access library as well as accessing things like the Machines Hostmac address.
We could not run it from the Tomcat area and had to put it into a jar file and put the jar file into the JVM jdk/jre/lib/ext dir and then it worked fine as any classes / libraries in that dir are loaded by the JVM meaning they are always available - This is also where we put the JDBC driver jar. Mike. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 November 2005 11:32 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Load class from different web app You are violating the servlet spec. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Classes for a webapp need to be in WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib. Tomcat does allow for webapps to share classes via the $CATALINA_HOME/shared and $CATALINA_HOME/common directories but you'll need to see the classloader docs on any restrictions. -Tim Steven Nakhla wrote: > I'm writing a web application (a portal app, to be specific) that needs to > be able to load a class (using Class.forName(...)) that was deployed in a > different web application from the one I am developing. I've deployed the > target web app containing the class I want to load, but whenever I call > Class.forName(), I get a "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException". Is there > anything special I need to do if I want to load this class? It appears it is > a classloader issue, but I don't know enough to determine what the problem > is. Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Steve Nakhla > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.8/161 - Release Date: 03/11/2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
