Hi Dave, I believe one of the primary reasons that the conf/catalina.properties file exists is so things like this are configurable. If:
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar doesn't do what you want, change it to: shared.loader=${catalina.home}/shared/classes,${catalina.home}/shared/lib/*.jar or something else that achieves your goal. Cheers, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: David Kerber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:55 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Deploying shared .jar's > > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > >>From: David Kerber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: Deploying shared .jar's > >> > >>With the way I read it now, anything I try to put under > >>catalina_home/shared/lib won't be visible to the webapps in the > >>various catalina_base folders. Is this correct? > >> > >> > > > >Yes. Look at RUNNING.txt in your Tomcat installation directory. To > >quote from it: > > > >When you use this "-Dcatalina.base=$CATALINA_BASE" argument, Tomcat > >will calculate all relative references for files in the following > >directories based on the value of $CATALINA_BASE instead of > >$CATALINA_HOME: > >* conf - Server configuration files (including server.xml) > >* logs - Log and output files > >* shared - For classes and resources that must be shared > across all web > > applications > >* webapps - Automatically loaded web applications > >* work - Temporary working directories for web applications > >* temp - Directory used by the JVM for temporary files > (java.io.tmpdir) > > > >Note the inclusion of shared in the CATALINA_BASE set. It would be > >better if it read "For classes and resources that must be > shared across > >all web applications within this Tomcat instance." > > > > > > > Yes, that's what I decided on re-reading it for the umpteenth > time, when I couldn't get it to work the way I wanted. A bit > of clarification by the doc writers might be in order. > > Dave > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To > unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]