ok, my reading skills are lacking. I put the jar in common/lib. I get the following exception which seems odd as I saw the missing class in catalina.jar and I compiled against it.
Sep 10, 2007 2:24:03 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.DigesterstartElement SEVERE: Begin event threw error java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/catalina/valves/ValveBase at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:620) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java :124) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:260) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:56) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:195) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:299) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.ObjectCreateRule.begin( ObjectCreateRule.java:205) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule.begin(Rule.java:153) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java :1276) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement( AbstractSAXParser.java:533) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractXMLDocumentParser.emptyElement (AbstractXMLDocumentParser.java:220) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement (XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:872) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch (XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1693) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument (XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse( XML11Configuration.java:834) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse( XML11Configuration.java:764) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse( XMLParser.java:148) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse( AbstractSAXParser.java:1242) at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1562) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:490) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:524) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke( DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:267) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432) On 9/10/07, Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Steve Souza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: classpath problems with a custom valve > > > > common/lib is for jars are only needed by web apps whereas > > shared/lib is for web apps AND tomcat. > > Read the doc again - you have it backwards. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail > and its attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >