Well, A jar may contain any types of resources.
Further more, When I'm using the aspectj jar from regular environment (which is not using the tomcat webclassloader) it works like a charm... I would expect the webclassloader to behave just as the native java classloader does. Asaf Lahav VP R&D, Prima Grid LTD. Cellular: 972-54-4717955 Phone: 972-3-6540255 Fax: 972-3-6540254 -----Original Message----- From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:28 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Classloader bug? Its not a bug. A jar needs to contain classes, not other jars. -Tim Asaf Lahav wrote: > > > I think encountered a tomcat classloader bug. > > I have a jar file that contains several other jar files. > > I expected the classloader to be aware of the jar files that are packaged > inside it. > > Anyhow, > > I kept getting classnotfound exceptions until I extracted the contained jars > out from the containing jar. > > > > p.s, > > the problematic jar file is: > > aspectj-1.5.0.jar (of aspectJ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]