On 30/09/2016 12:50, Chinoy Gupta wrote: > I am getting NULL instead of the resource's value. I debugged the > tomcat code and figured out that in ResourceLinkFactory.java, before > fetching the resource there is a validation based on current > classloader. That validation fails and tomcat returns NULL.
The above statement is not correct. If the class loader based validation fails, Tomcat throws an exception. It does not return null. Mark > > -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas > [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 4:11 PM > To: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Subject: Re: Unable > to access Global JNDI Resource > > On 30/09/2016 11:30, Chinoy Gupta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a web application which runs on tomcat. In server.xml, I >> provide some resources under "<GlobalNamingResources> section" and >> then provide a ResourceLink to the same in context.xml. And then I >> fetch that resource in my application. This was working properly >> earlier but started breaking with 8.0.37. > > Define breaking. Ideally with a stack trace. > > Mark > > >> I think the reason is the extra validation check introduced in >> ResourceLinkFactory class. My application has its own classloader >> and when I try to fetch the JNDI resource, the Thread's classloader >> is my custom one rather than the default one. Because of that >> validation fails and tomcat returns NULL. Is there a way to fix >> this through configuration or any other means? >> >> Regards, Chinoy >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
