Hi all, As I have also mentioned in one of my previous emails, I want to start/stop a web application from another webapplication. In my efforts to achieve this, I came across ManagerServlet. All my efforts to bring the similar functions in my web-app failed.
So I went through the Tomcat API docs and found that it mentions that ContainerServlet (which is implemented by ManagerServlet) is loaded by Catalina class loader and not the standard web application class loader. Thinking that it might be the issue that my application residing under web-apps and not a part of the server folder, restricts its use of Catalina class loader, I moved the web app folder to server\webapps. That didn't help too. After that, I put only one servlet which implements ContainerServlet from my web-app to Manager webapp under /server/lib/webapps/manager/WEB-INF/lib, where it started working without any other issues. I assume this is working before manager application has some special privileges to use Catalina class loader either by some descriptor or by other means. So it would really be helpful if anybody can give me some starting pointers where I can look for to find out how to change the class loader for the web apps so that I can keep using my webapp and can establish control over other web-application. And also on a side note, I would be thankfule if anybody can point me to any other existant ways to control other webapps from one web app. My primary purpose to establish control over other webapps is because my product is running with different components running as different web apps and I want to create a management webapp that controls them. Any help is sincerely appreciated, Thanks, Shimol.
