On 07/12/2016 09:01, Berg, R. van den (Robin) wrote:
> Hello!
> I have an issue that seems not supported anymore with Tomcat 8.
> The same problem is also posted in the comments on: 
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html
> 
> PROBLEM:
> We used the virtualWebAppLoader to get some extra libraries and classes that 
> were on the machine on the classloader.
> The virtualClasspath-property of the virtualWebAppLoader was a ';'-seperated 
> list of directories. If one of them was empty, that was not a problem.
> We used the fact that non-existing/empty directories were not loaded, without 
> any exception. MQ were imported on
> Test-acceptance-production. However, in a local/dev-setup we do not provide 
> these libraries, since MQ-services are stubbed out.
> 
> We used the {Jar|File|Dir}ResourceSet in the context.xml as replacement for 
> the virtualWebAppLoader, as recommended by the migration guide.
> However, these fail when the base-property is non-existent. Therefore, it 
> breaks dev/local.
> 
> In the comments in 
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html a solution was 
> posted to extend the {Jar|File|Dir}ResourceSet.
> However, that solution won't work for us, since we can't provide the 
> tomcat-instances on test-acc-prd with an extra class/library with the 
> extended class. (access-rights/cloud-solution only allows default setup).

Can you not simply create an empty directory in the right place for
dev/local ?

Mark

> 
> PREFERRRED SOLUTION:
> Just like the tomcat 7  virtualWebAppLoader we would like the ResourceSet to 
> be optional/non-failing if the resource is not available. Is there any 
> configuration/property I can use to do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kind Regards,
> 
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