> -----Original Message----- > From: Konstantin Kolinko [mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:44 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Classloaders > > 1. What tomcat version?
Tomcat v. 6.0.18, JVM 1.6.0_13, Ubuntu 9.04 on kernel 2.6.28-11 > 2. The documentation on classloaders is here: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html Thanks, but I've read through that a few times. It describes the existing classloader layout but does not describe how to avoid problems when using your own within Tomcat. > 3. Some JDBC drivers use native code. Those cannot be loaded from > different class loaders in the same time. Thus, they cannot be loaded > from /WEB-INF/lib, as there will be conflicts between applications, > or between several instances of the same application if it is > restarted. This one does not include any native code, it is self-contained in a single JAR file. > 4. Put the jar file into WEB-INF/lib, and then restart your > web application. > (E.g., using Tomcat Manager). Your jar library will be loaded. > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/html-manager-howto.html > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/manager-howto.html It is more of a plugin than a library. The location is user-specified, a directory to watch for plugin JARs. Each JAR contains metadata in the manifest describing the main class of the plugin. That main class is loaded using Class.forName(), causing a static{} block in the class to run, performing any registrations necessary to integrate with the application. When the class is needed (i.e. when I try to connect to a database), a new instance is created. That involves calling Class.forName() to load the PostgreSQL database driver (a class called 'org.postgresql.Driver'), contained in postgresql-8.3-604.jdbc4.jar (present in WEB-INF/lib). But that call to Class.forName() to load org.postgresql.Driver fails because the class cannot be found. This is confounding because an ancestor classloader of my URLClassLoader that made the classes in my plugin JAR available should have access to org.postgresql.Driver. In fact, one of them *must* because when the classes in my plugin JAR are placed into WEB-INF/classes in their raw .class state (not packaged into a jar), everything works. > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
