I added verbose, it does not appear to attempt to load anything from /web/lib/ for permissions i verified that i could read the files as the tomcat user.
Thanks, Dan On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@gopivotal.com>wrote: > On Aug 21, 2013, at 4:48 PM, D C <dc12...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So here is what I'm trying to achieve. > > > > 1. The tomcat install remains clean. I want to be able to change the > > tomcat installation without messing with the app. > > 2. We want our applications to be decoupled from the libraries which it > > needs. ( i understand the pains you are referring to.. this was a bit > of > > debate, but this is what we want to do). > > 3. We want our engineering team to manage libs via RPM, not the > developers. > > > > tomcat is installed like so via RPM. > > /opt/tomcat-6.0.35 > > /opt/tomcat-7.0.39 > > /opt/tomcat-7.0.40 > > /tomcat symlinks to which ever /opt/tomcat-7.0.40 > > > > Context entries go in /tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/myApp.xml > > > > /web/webapps - holds our webapps. This much works perfectly. > > /web/conf/myApp - holds our application configs. > > /web/lib - holds any libs that are not part of the base tomcat > > installation. This is managed by rpm. > > > > If unpack a war file, and it has contents inside WEB_INF/lib, we will > > consider that a broken build. > > > > > > Everything works, except that my libs are not loading.. I had thought > that > > I could add /web/lib,/web/lib/*.jar to the common.loader. Am I mistaken > by > > this? > > You can certainly add entries to common.loader and yours looks OK. > > Assuming the paths exist and permissions on those paths are correct, I'd > suggest adding the "-verbose" JVM argument to your bin/setenv.sh file. > This will show you the location of classes that are being loaded. Perhaps > it is loading classes from those locations and there is some other reason > you are getting the ClassNotFoundException. > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@gopivotal.com > >wrote: > > > >> 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 > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >>> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >