> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Eric B. > Subject: Re: Loading Jar files in a particular order on Tomcat 6 > > I've always noticed that the classloader loads things in alphabetical > order.
??? Which classloader are you referring to? And by "things", do you mean classes or jars? If you're referring to jars, the order of jar processing is determined solely by the specific classloader instance; it can choose to process the jars in the order they're encountered, alphabetically, by date/time, or any other means. Relying on any particular observed behavior is extremely risky, unless it's defined in the spec. > Additionally, if it finds the same class in 2 different jars, it only > seems to use the class from the first jar. That is normal behavior for all classloaders. - 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 unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
