On Aug 21, 2013, at 4:09 PM, David kerber <dcker...@verizon.net> wrote:

> Basically you're trying to defeat the way the system is designed to work.  
> Don't do that…

+1 Don't do what you've described unless you have a very good reason.  It will 
cause you many headaches.

Keep all of your JAR files in "WEB-INF/lib", with the exception of JDBC 
drivers.  Put those in "$CATALINA_BASE/lib".

Dan

> 
> 
> On 8/21/2013 3:58 PM, D C wrote:
>> Tomcat 7.0.40
>> CentOS 6.3
>> Java 1.7.0_21
>> 
>> 
>> I am trying to move all libraries out of my webapps directory, and into a
>> common place.
>> 
>> I have my libs that were bundled with tomcat in /tomcat/lib (the default),
>> and my extra libs i want to keep in /web/lib.
>> 
>> I've updated /tomcat/conf/catalina.properties to use the following:
>> common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,/web/lib,/web/lib/*.jar
>> 
>> I have my database resource located in
>> /tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/myApp.xml  (probably not relevant)
>> 
>> When I start tomcat, I get the errors listed below.  However if I move
>> /web/lib/*  to webapps/myApp/WEB_INF/lib/  it works fine.
>> 
>> What am I missing here?
>> 
>> 
>> catalina.out snip.
>> SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start:
>> org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component
>> [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/myApp]]
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:657)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1636)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334)
>>         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
>>         at
>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
>>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
>> Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
>> org/springframework/core/io/Resource
>>         at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields0(Native Method)
>>         at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredFields(Class.java:2317)
>>         at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredFields(Class.java:1762)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.util.Introspection.getDeclaredFields(Introspection.java:106)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.WebAnnotationSet.loadFieldsAnnotation(WebAnnotationSet.java:261)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.WebAnnotationSet.loadApplicationListenerAnnotations(WebAnnotationSet.java:90)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.WebAnnotationSet.loadApplicationAnnotations(WebAnnotationSet.java:65)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationAnnotationsConfig(ContextConfig.java:405)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:881)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5269)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
>>         ... 11 more
>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>> org.springframework.core.io.Resource
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714)
>>         at
>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559)
>>         ... 25 more
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>> 
> 
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