I extracted the shared folder to my desktop to see what was in it. It
contains 2 folders Classes and lib, with 24 jar files in the lib folder. I
did try extracting it to the Libraries in the tomcat tree and running the
program with no success. I now am wiping the installation of tomcat and
extracted program and doing a full reload. This next time I am going to try
to move the Library files in the tomcat 9 directory into a folder named
shared by altering the directory tree first prior to extracting the
program. I think I read in the docs somewhere there is a command line that
can do this so tomcat knows where to look for the library and shared
library files. Any more suggestions would be welcome.
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:09 AM Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> вс, 9 февр. 2020 г. в 02:12, Peter Rader <p.ra...@gmx.net>:
> >
> >
> > > I am currently trying to install a program designed to operate on Win
> XP 32
> > > and earlier on to a Win 10 environment. The program extracts to the
> Shared
> > > and Webapps folders of Tomcat 5.5 and uses a SQL database. After
> converting
> > > the database and installing it on SQL 2017 I added the JDBC connector
> and
> > > downloaded and installed tomcat 9 only to find there is no shared
> folder to
> > > extract the shared files to. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Hm, shared ... do you mean the endorsed folder? From old apps I remember
> that some jdbc-jars have to be placed in tomcat's endorsed folder.
> >
> > I am pretty sure that you could use the JVM/JDK's endorsed folder. They
> usually have their place in <jdk>\lib\endorsed .
>
> Endorsed folder is a different beast. Please do not put anything there.
>
> Tomcat 5.5 documentation is still available online (if you know the
> address to type it in a browser's address bar) [1] The closest analogy
> to the "Shared" classloader in current Tomcat is the "Common"
> classloader that loads classes from ${catalina.base|/lib.
>
> [1]
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/class-loader-howto.html#Overview
> [2]
> https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html#Overview
>
> It is possible to reconfigure Tomcat 9 to have a separate Shared
> classloader as well, but that is an overkill.
>
> Also, do not forget about Migration Guides [3].
>
> [3] https://tomcat.apache.org/migration.html
> [4]
> https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-6.html#Modified_directory_structure
>
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
>
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