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Behrooz,

On 3/26/18 12:26 AM, Behrooz Nobakht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am migrating a code base from Tomcat 8.0.38 to 9.0.6. There are a
> few things I'd like to confirm based on observations so far and ask
> for advice:
> 
> 1. Default Class Loader
> 
> In 9, it seems that the default is ParallelWebAppClassLoader
> compared with WebAppClassLoader in 8.0. What behavior changes does
> the new class loader bring esp. now that it seems to use
> "concurrent" approach?
> 
> One specific observation so far is that the code
> 
> Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()
> 
> used to give out "a" class loader in 8.0 but it returns null in
> 9.0. Any advice on this?

What code is fetching the TCCL? Something like a ServletContextListener?

> 2. ClassNotFoundException:
> org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory
> 
> Having the code:
> 
> InitialContext ic = new InitialContext()

What data type is InitialContext in your code, here? Can you post the
complete stack trace?

> used to work on Tomcat 8.0 but now yields the above exception in
> Tomcat 9. It seems that catalina.jar is not exposed by default to a
> webapp class loader.

Nor should it. It should not have been available to applications in
Tomcat 8, either. Are you bundling catalina.jar with your application?

- -chris
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